"Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one."

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Source : Augustine Birrell (1969). “Obiter Dicta: Second Series”, p.169, Library of Alexandria

Augustine Birrell

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“If your addiction lingers, ask yourself if you really want to release it, because in your heart you do not.”
“I love being presented a character that boggles my mind. I have to do a lot of work and explore how I can make the guy absolutely real and absolutely believable to myself. And then, I go to work on doing that for other people.”
“Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh for me as a reader.”

Source : "Born Storyteller: An Interview With Michael Koryta, Author of So Cold the River". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 8, 2010.
“The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling. . . .”
“People always talk about going on offensive runs. But you can go on defensive runs too”
“I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.”
“The worst thing a man can ever do is kiss me on the first date.”
“Education in our family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre ... In this family of accomplished scholars, I was to become the academic black sheep. I performed adequately at high school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.”

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