Andy Miller Quotes

#1. On average, everyone has read The Da Vinci Code. You have probably read it. Even if you have not read it, statistically you have.

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#2. The thing that chiefly struck me was the rarity of really bookish people.

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#3. I wanted to possess all the books I had already read, as well as all those I had not - every book in the whole wide world, in other words.

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#4. Is it wrong to prefer books to people? Not at Christmas. A book is like a guest you have invited into your home, except you don't have to play Pictionary with it or supply it with biscuits and stollen.

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#5. In short, this was a period in which the phrase 'you're never alone with a good book' started to sound less like a promise and more like a threat.

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#6. We are creatures made as much by art as by experience and what we read in books is the sum of both.

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#7. As a parent, it has been instructive to discover that the deep, instinctive love I feel for my own child is counterbalanced by the antipathy I feel towards other people's children.

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#8. That's the trouble with stereotypes: they are not wholly disconnected from the truth.

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#9. When we find a painting or a novel or a musical we love, we are briefly connected to the best that human beings are capable of, in ourselves and others, and we are reminded that our path through the world must intersect with others. Whether we like it or not, we are not alone.

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#10. As Schopenhauer noted a hundred and fifty years ago, 'It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them; but one usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of their contents.

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#11. In the midst of nature's savagery, human beings sometimes (rarely) succeed in creating small oases warmed by love. Small, exclusive, enclosed spaces governed only by love and shared subjectivity.

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#12. I felt the unmistakable certainty that I had been in the presence of great art, and that my heart had opened in reply.

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#13. Reading is a broad church. But it is still a church.

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#14. ...It's [kindle] a useful addition to our library, not a replacement for it.

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#15. Somebody once described the Internet as a library where all the books have been taken off the shelves and dumped in the middle of the floor. Disorganisation, however, is not the issue. The Internet is the greatest library in the universe; unfortunately someone has removed all the 'no talking' signs.

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#16. I long to reach my home and see the day of my return. It is my never-failing wish.' Homer, The Odyssey

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#17. Did I really read every single book in the school? My mother maintains I did. Maybe I just told the teachers I had and they all believed me. Maybe this is where the lying about books really began. Where were the checks and balances? I blame the authorities.

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#18. All these sorts of book feature in The Year of Reading Dangerously, which could yet be called Fifty Shades of Great.

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