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"'John,' said his mother, 'this lady is Mrs Shaw, Miss Hale's aunt. I am sorry to say, that Miss Hale's call is to wish us goodbye.'
'You are going then?' said he, in a low voice.
'Yes,' said Margaret. 'We leave tomorrow.'

Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South

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"'I don’t see why it’s taken thousands of years to sort out.' 'That’s because the people trying to sort it out were men,' said Pepper, meaningfully.”

Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman - Good Omens

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"To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens and ink, with the manual capacity of using them."

- Henry Fielding, 'Tom Jones'

(Oh, if only it were so!)
#BookWormSat #writing #notwriting

"To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens and ink, with the manual capacity of using them."

- Henry Fielding, 'Tom Jones'

(Oh, if only it were so!)
#BookWormSat #writing #notwriting

"To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens and ink, with the manual capacity of using them."

- Henry Fielding, 'Tom Jones'

(Oh, if only it were so!)
#BookWormSat #writing #notwriting

"To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens and ink, with the manual capacity of using them."

- Henry Fielding, 'Tom Jones'

(Oh, if only it were so!)
#BookWormSat #writing #notwriting

"To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens and ink, with the manual capacity of using them."

- Henry Fielding, 'Tom Jones'

(Oh, if only it were so!)
#BookWormSat #writing #notwriting

"Films are for everyone, collective, generous, with children cheering when the cavalry arrives. But your books are selfish. Solitary. Some can't even be read. A person who's interested only in books doesn't need other people; that frightens me."
- Arturo Pérez-Reverte, "The Club Dumas"
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Gah! How could I forget #BookWormSat? So many quotes - so little time!

"Books are sweet, unreproaching companions to the miserable, and if they can not bring us to enjoy life, they will at least teach us to endure it."

- Oliver Goldsmith, 'The Vicar Of Wakefield'
(Painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds)

Gah! How could I forget #BookWormSat? So many quotes - so little time!

"Books are sweet, unreproaching companions to the miserable, and if they can not bring us to enjoy life, they will at least teach us to endure it."

- Oliver Goldsmith, 'The Vicar Of Wakefield'
(Painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds)

'September came in with golden days and silver nights'

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King #BookwormSat

🎨 Alan Reynolds 'Summer: Young September’s Cornfield' (1954)

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"He studied the small scattered frog bodies, some already shrivelled, some newly dead, each with a leg secured by a yucca thread to a tiny peg cut from a twig ... they followed a series of faint concentric circles. Some sort of game, Leaphorn guessed."

Tony Hillerman - A Thief of Time