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Cannibals prefer those who have no spines. -- Stanislaw Lem
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. -- Billy Graham
At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos. -- Heston Blumenthal
I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines. -- Twyla Tharp
Lion's mane mushrooms are not your classic-looking cap-and-stem variety. These globular-shaped mushrooms sport cascading teeth-like spines rather than the more common gills. -- Paul Stamets
Yes, I was one of the slightly vintage women who let out a shriek when we saw it at Costco: 'The Nancy Drew Mystery Stories', a complete boxed set, fifty-six familiar yellow spines, shrink-wrapped. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein. -- Al Seckel
The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself. -- Milos Forman
I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life. I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein. -- Al Seckel
Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.. -- Stanislaw Lem
The zipper opened all the way down our spines. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids. -- Etgar Keret
... there are spines to which the immobility of worship is not a strain. -- Edith Wharton
To understand others you should get behind their eyes and walk down their spines. -- Rod McKuen
Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits. -- Robin Sloan
Let your dissent fuel you, your anger inspire you, your rage convey you, and your fury strike a chilling fear onto the spines of your enemies. -- Evan Meekins
All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble. -- William Halsey
His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines. -- William Gibson
Many [book] even lay flat in the floor open. Their spines upward. Elinor couldn't bear to look! Didn't the monster know that was the way to break a book's neck? -- Cornelia Funke
And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of others read in archaic books with crackling spines. -- Erin Morgenstern
Rose goblins are built like porcupines - if you rub them the right way, you don't have to worry about the spines. They're sort of like people in that regard, too. -- Mira Grant
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I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured or opinionated guests at a wonderful party, whispering to each other. -- Janet Fitch
Animals don't even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. ... The conscious impulse to change one's appearance is found only among humans. -- Wislawa Szymborska

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