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“A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again.” W. E. B. Du Bois

“When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.” W. Somerset Maugham

“Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.” Fran Lebowitz

The book has sat on the shelf since you were three. OK, maybe four…However, the book has always been there. You remember when you were ten, opening the cover once…once…And, your father stood over you and asked where the book belonged. You quickly put it back. You managed to see a few words inside the [...]

Books are bound to a higher calling. Books are stitched together with a passion greater than an old blanket. Books are what connect us to the worlds we have never visited. Books are the portals into lives which we envision only for a spell and are lost quicker than the snow melts right before spring. [...]

“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.” Ernest Hemingway

What can I say of Jonathan Livingston Seagull that doesn’t make me smile..From my family making references to me with his name to re-reading the book at every life milestone, this book has been a part of my life. It doesn’t matter if you believe in idealism or realism. JLS enables us all to believe [...]