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“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”
― Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters

“Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”
― P. J. O'Rourke

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.”
― George Steiner