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A Bookcase Is As Good As A View, As Much Of A Panorama As The Sight Of A City Or A River. There Are Dawns And Sunsets In Books - Storms And Zephyrs.

Travel Is Like Adultery: One Is Always Tempted To Be Unfaithful To One's Own Country. To Have Imagination Is Inevitably To Be Dissatisfied With Where You Live. There Is In Men, As Peter Quennell Said, "a Centrifugal Tendency." In Our Wanderlust, We Are Lovers Looking For Consummation.

Two People Making Love, She Once Said, Are Like One Drowned Person Resuscitating The Other.

A Book Is Meant Not Only To Be Read, But To Haunt You, To Importune You Like A Lover Or A Parent, To Be In Your Teeth Like A Piece Of Gristle.

There Are Few Things More Subtly Distressing Than An Inappropriate Gift From Someone Close To You.