"I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself."

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Source : Mary Butts (1988). “The Crystal Cabinet: My Childhood at Salterns”, Beacon Press (MA)

Eudora Welty

#Book Quotes #Smell Quotes #Library Quotes

“There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood,”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I don't begrudge rich people running for office. God knows that FDR and JFK both came from very wealthy families but I think did more to help impoverished Americans than anybody else.”

Source : "Community leaders absent as violence in Baltimore skyrockets". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. May 29, 2015.
“I'm just figuring out being able to understand that it's cool for me to date, and have guys be interested in me, and be interested in guys.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano .”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesnâ€™t make you who you are.Â It is the rest of your story â€“ who you choose to be.”

Source : "Fictional character: Soothsayer". "Kung Fu Panda 2", www.imdb.com. 2011.
“A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.”
“Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered.”
“I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.”

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