Anne Fadiman  - Quotes

 If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs. 

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Mikita Brottman  - Quotes

 Should he give free reign to his desires, the bibliomaniac can ruin his life along with the lives of his loved ones. He'll often take better care of his books than of his own health; he'll spend more on fiction than he does on food; he'll be more interested in his library than in his relationships, and, since few people are prepared to live in a place where every available surface is covered with piles of books, he'll often find himself alone, perhaps in the company of a neglected and malnourished xat. When he dies, all but forgotten, his body might fester for days before a curious neighbor grows concerned about the smell. 

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Gustave Flaubert  - Quotes

 The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy. 

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