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Read two old books for every new one.
J. I. Packer / Christian Theologian
Book
Old Books
Two
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I love to both give and receive very old books.
Augusten Burroughs / Writer
Book
Giving
Giving And Receiving
Old Books
Receive
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I have this obsession with really cool, old books.
Constance Zimmer / Actress
Cool
Book
Obsession
Old Books
Really Cool
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I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.
Theodore Roosevelt / 26Th U.s. President
War
Book
Old Books
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Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
William Temple / Bishop Of Manchester
Old Books
Please
Among
Books
Converse
New Will Old
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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Oliver Goldsmith / Novelist
Birthday
Friendship
Friends
Love
Saint Patrick's Day
Book
Manners
Old Books
Old Wine
Wine
Books
Old
Times
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I am something of an aficionado of thrift stores. In my youth, I regularly searched their shelves for old books.
Michael Dirda / Critic
Old Books
Shelves
Thrift
Regularly
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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
Bernard Baruch / Financier
Abandoned
Book
Giving
Old Books
Old Friends
Pleasure
Service
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You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.
Irvine Welsh / Novelist
Old Books
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People sometimes think that I bring home all these old books because I'm addicted, that I'm no better than a hoarder with a houseful of crumbling newspapers.
Michael Dirda / Critic
Crumbling
Newspapers
Old Books
Home Better People
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It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.
Barbara Hambly / Novelist
Digital
Old Books
Current
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My mom was a model and she would show me her old books, and it was so cool. She would tell me everything there is to know about the business - the good, the bad, the ugly.
Sistine Stallone /
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Ugly
Model
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Raised in a house filled with old books, I'm drawn to them: the dust jackets that call out a historical moment, the marbled boards, the words pressed into the page with movable type.
Jacob Weisberg / Journalist
Boards
Dust
Filled
Jackets
Old Books
Raised
Type
Drawn
Movable
Page
Pressed
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I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains.
Jack Bowman /
Book
Long
Old Books
Pages
Stories
Touched
Use
Old
Each
Finger
Held
Page
Tell
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Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.
Raina Telgemeier /
Book
Old Books
Sun
Ages
Bump
Discovered
Eventually
Gets
People New Your
Maybe
New People
Published
Recommended
Season
Seem
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The 'Backlisted' podcast describes itself as 'giving new life to old books'. In each episode, John Mitchinson and Andy Miller are joined by a guest from the world of books who brings along some overlooked gem to enthuse about.
David Hepworth /
Giving
New Life
Old Books
Overlooked
Andy
Life World New
Books
Brings
Itself
Episode
Gem
Guest
John
Miller
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.
Yayoi Kusama / Artist
Avant Garde
Book
Countryside
Georgia
Impressed
Information
Old Books
Shop
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Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.
Marilynne Robinson / Novelist
Antiquity
Book
Contemporary
Essays
Eye
Genre
Old Books
Philosophy
Relevant
Theology
Oddly
Primary
Sources
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Half of my library are old books because I like seeing how people thought about their world at their time. So that I don't get bigheaded about something we just discovered and I can be humble about where we might go next. Because you can see who got stuff right and most of the people who got stuff wrong.
Neil Degrasse Tyson / Astrophysicist
Be Humble
Half
Old Books
Seeing
Discovered
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When I was a kid, there was this neighborhood beer and wine store that sold old comics for a nickel a piece. I'd load up on old books whenever we went on vacation. Yeah, I have a lot of fond memories of riding in the back of the ol' station wagon and reading 'Mystery in Space' and 'Strange Adventures' as we headed up to Torch Lake.
Jim Starlin / Comic Book Writer
Vacation
Beer
Fond Memories
Load
Memories
Neighborhood
Old Books
Riding
Wine
Fond
Headed
Lake
Nickel
Sold
Store
Torch
Wagon
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As a biographer, I try to uncover the adventures and personalities behind each character I research. Once my character and I have reached an understanding, then I begin the detective work reading old books, old letters, old newspapers, and visiting the places where my subject lived. Often I turn up surprises, and of course, I pass them on.
Jean Fritz / Writer
Letters
Newspapers
Old Books
Visiting
Adventures
Surprises
Detective
Personalities
Reached
Uncover
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