QUOTATIONS
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The first book of Seamus Heaney’s I ever purchased was Sweeney Astray at a used bookstore in Dinkytown, Minneapolis. That was in October 1986. Since then I have purchased and read many, many other books of his poetry and prose. I treasure each and every one. By the time Heaney published Sweeny Astray in 1983, he had already written… Read more
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“Isn’t it strange what happens with old books? They choose you. They reach out to their buyer—Hello, here I am, take me with you. It’s as if they were alive.” (cf. Pérez-Reverte, Arturo. The Nautical Chart ) Whether it is at a used-bookstore, a thrift store, a Little Library, or the out-of-the-way corner of a bar… Read more
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Happy Friday! Here is a quote by Virginia Woolf to carry into your weekend. There is a sentence in Dr. Johnson’s Life of Gray which might well be written up in all those rooms, too humble to be called libraries, yet full of books, where the pursuit of reading is carried on by private people.… Read more
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