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1 " I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted. "
― Mary Ann Shaffer , The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
2 " For the last several days I've had the sudden and general urge to buy a new book. I've stopped off at a few bookstores around the city, and while I've looked at hundreds and hundreds of books in that time, I have not found the one book that will satisfy my urge. It's not as if I don't have anything to read; there's a tower of perfectly good unread books next to my bed, not to mention the shelves of books in the living room I've been meaning to reread. I find myself, maddeningly, hungry for the next one, as yet unknown. I no longer try to analyze this hunger; I capitulated long ago to the book lust that's afflicted me most of my life. I know enough about the course of the disease to know I'll discover something soon. "
― Lewis Buzbee , The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History
3 " He pilfered a copy of Ulysses, but it was possibly the one book he did not finish. 'What's the point of it? I suspect it was a bit of a joke by Joyce. He just kept his mouth shut as people read into it more then there was. Pseudo-intellectuals love to drop the name Ulysses as their favorite book. I refused to be intellectually bullied into finishing it. "
― Michael Finkel , The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
4 " The Bible is the one book which reveals the Creator to the creature He created! No other book that man has conceived can make that statement and support it with fact. "
― Billy Graham , Billy Graham in Quotes
5 " The Bible is the one book we’ve most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way. "
