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‘Books are the only article of property in which I am richer than my neighbours’ – Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1821

‘“Why,” she asked, “if men write such rubbish as this, should our mothers
have wasted their youth in bringing them into the world?”’ – Virginia Woolf, A Society, 1921

‘I’ve discovered that, for some unknown reason, it is customary to have one wall in a house covered with books.
These, I am sure, no one in the world will read but [my wife] Susan.’ – Harpo Marx, in a letter to Alexander Wollcott, July 9, 1936 from his home in Beverly Hills, CA

‘A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?’ – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953

‘Let me tell you something: from then until I left prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library,
I was reading on my bunk. You couldn’t have gotten me out of books with a wedge.’ – Malcom X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 1964

‘Standing around books, even books in a foreign language, you feel a kind of electricity buzzing up towards you.’ – Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger, 2008