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An unread book does nobody any good -- Brandon Mull
An unread book is just a block of paper. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more. -- Gabriel Zaid
An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page. -- Brandon Mull
Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live. -- Holmes Rolston III
Not everybody has time to pay attention fully, or not everybody has the time to read a book. Some people refuse to read books, and I'm just an unread book. Open me! -- Lil B
She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat. -- Maud Hart Lovelace
I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!' -- Linda Grant
There was that special smell made up of paper, ink, and dust; the busy hush; the endless luxury of thousands of unread books. Best of all was the eager itch of anticipation as you went out the door with your arms loaded down with books. -- Zilpha Keatley Snyder
It takes me about a week and a half to read the typical book. I don't know how many ten-day spans I have left. Eventually the unread books on my shelves will have to be abandoned, or they will join me on the pyre. The book I'm about to purchase may be among them. We all buy books we won't live to read. -- Ken Kalfus
Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree? -- Christopher Paolini
Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than an unread library." -- Austin Kleon
I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. -- Nick Hornby
Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books. -- John Dingell
Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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