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Lewis Buzbee Quotes: Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers to as one genius speaking to another.
         

Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers to as one genius speaking to another.


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If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.



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How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book?



Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far we've come; it's a way of visiting an earlier self.

Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far we've come; it's a way of visiting an earlier self.



I am fatally attracted to all bookstores.

I am fatally attracted to all bookstores.



Books were in the world; the world was in books.

Books were in the world; the world was in books.



Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is the city where our fleshed-out inner selves reside.

Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is the city where our fleshed-out inner selves reside.



Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.

Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.



The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged.

The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged.



Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.

Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.



If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3, 900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3, 900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.





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