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  • A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

    Book   Mean   Past  
  • You'll enjoy it. There is much you can learn from books and scrolls," said Jeod. He gestured at the walls. "These books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life." "It sounds intriguing," admitted Eragon. "Always the scholar, aren't you?" asked Brom. Jeod shrugged. "Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.

    Wall   Book   Laughing  
    Christopher Paolini (2011). “Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr Omnibus”, p.111, Random House
  • Real bibliophiles do not put their books on shelves for people to look at or handle. They have no desire to show off their darlings, or to amaze people with their possessions. They keep their prized books hidden away in a secret spot to which they resort stealthily, like a Caliph visiting his harem, or a church elder sneaking into a bar. To be a book collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope-fiend with those of a miser.

    Real   Book   Dope  
  • Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had not desecrated by underlining her favorite sections with a ball-point pen. Once I had told her that I would rather see a museum bombed than a book underlined, but she dismissed my argument as mere sentimentality. She marked her books so that stunning images and ideas would not be lost to her.

    Book   Museums   Ideas  
  • A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

    William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.

    Book   Slave   Masters  
  • Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves.

    Doe   Answers   Rooms  
    Will Thomas (2004). “Some Danger Involved: A Novel”, p.113, Simon and Schuster
  • Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars

    Book   Wine   Generosity  
  • Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books.

    Book   Home   Lows  
    Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.67, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.

    Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.237, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile." "A what?" asked Eragon. "One who loves books," explained Jeod.

    Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.237, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.

    Will Thomas (2004). “Some Danger Involved: A Novel”, p.113, Simon and Schuster
  • Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

    Book   Laughing   Cry  
    Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.237, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

    "The Durable Satisfactions of Life (The Happy Life)". Book by Charles William Eliot (p. 37), 1910.
  • Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

    Book   Reading   Library  
    Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs”
  • Holy borrowing bibliophile, let's book!

    Karen Marie Moning (2015). “Burned: Fever Series”, p.219, Delacorte Press
  • I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.

    Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A perilous advantage: the best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, New Victoria Pub
  • A great book should leave you with many experiences.

    William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.

    Book   Literature   Care  
  • A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.

    Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”
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