I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

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E. M. Forster

“Little Free Library” in New Orleans. So awesome.

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Reading is a form of magic.

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David Malouf
Literature is the original “internet”, woven of a web of allusions, references, and citations that link different works together into an endless rabbit hole of discovery.

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Maria Popova, “Producing Ideas

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“The Biblio-Mat”, Craig Small, 2012

A vending machine that dispenses pre-loved surprise books for two bucks a pop. Sweet idea!

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The idea of the book is the idea that there is no end to this very idea, and that it contains nothing less than its own proliferation, its multiplication, its dispersion…

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Jean-Luc Nancy
Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author’s words reverberating in your head.

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Paul Auster, “The Brooklyn Follies”

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Some plants and a bit more natural light, and this would be perfect =)

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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

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Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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Melbourne Central has a little free library thing! Its just some unmanned bookshelves and you take a book or donate your own!

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