If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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Life isn’t about finding the path; it’s about leaving a trail.

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I can survive well enough on my own – if given the proper reading material.

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Do not go hire the path may lead, Go in a state where there is no path and leave a trail. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you.

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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

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A good would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

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If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

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Books are the mirrors of the soul.

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