Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.
--Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs
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Stories never really end. They can go on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.
--Mary Norton, The Borrowers
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What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.
--J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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Mr. Cobb took me into his library and showed me his books, of which he has a complete set.
--Ring Lardner
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