"Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: itâ€™s for life."

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Source : Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1998). “The Club Dumas: A Novel”, Vintage

Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte

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“I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.”
“How had I managed to tie my boots? I didnâ€™t even remember getting dressed. I was out here in public at the mall. What was I wearing? Jeans. I could feel socks. I had my boots on. I plucked at the edge of my t-shirt and saw it was red. I was wearing Dadâ€™s spare Army jacket, and there was a heavy weight in the right pocket that had to be something deadly.”
“Like this. The wristbands you get at nightclubs next to all the bracelets? It's always the details that give me the ideas. It's fun to play with fashion because it is a fantasy. Each morning you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.”

Source : "Carine Roitfeld: 'I want to show fashion can be a nice world, if a bit crazy'". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2013.
“I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.”
“Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.”
“One of my first observations about New York that I was so fascinated with was that you'd be at a stoplight and you're with everybody; there's a homeless dude and some weird celebrity and a cop and someone who looks exactly like you. You're on foot and everyone is at street level and eye-to-eye. I think that's what's special about New York, because there's no hierarchy, there's no discrimination.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The rum fiend would like to go and hang up a skeleton in your beautiful house so that, when you opened the front door to go in, you would see it in the hall; and, when you sat at your table you would see it hanging from the wall; and, when you opened your bedroom you would find it stretched upon your pillow; and, waking at night, you would feel its cold hand passing over your face and pinching at your heart. There is no home so beautiful but it may be devastated by the awful curse.”
“We're just into toys, whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I've got the world's smallest phone. Maybe it's just because I'm still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know?”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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