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The young need discipline and a full bookcase. -- Vivienne Westwood
People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases. -- Mark Twain
I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific. -- Virginia Woolf
A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him -- Walter Mosley
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. -- Anatole Broyard
I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase. -- Henny Youngman
Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice. -- Anton Chekhov
Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh. -- Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon
So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall. -- Roald Dahl
A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms and zephyrs. -- Anatole Broyard
Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I was folio-high/ when I first heard the voices. -- Charles Baudelaire
My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were on their shelves. -- Anne Fadiman
The heat made people crazy. They woke from their damp bedsheets and went in search of a glass of water, surprised to find that when their vision cleared, they were holding instead the gun they kept hidden in the bookcase. -- Kristin Hannah
The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library must be dusted, must be arranged, must be catalogued. What a vista of toil, yet not unhappy toil! -- William E. Gladstone
The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also reading; the two of them absorbed in their books yet so completely aware of each other's presence. -- Christopher Isherwood
I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having. -- Samantha Bee
The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble - I honestly do not and cannot think about that. It's a lovely piece of crystal on my bookcase, but that's all it is to me. -- David Lindsay-Abaire
He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing. -- A. E. Hotchner
Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a personâ??s bookcase and their grocery cart, sheâ??d pretty much know who they were. -- Louise Penny

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