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Published for those who agree with Jason Epstein that ""actual books will continue to be irreplaceable depositories of our collective wisdom."" Contributors include Eudora Welty, Patti Smith, Henry Miller, John Updike, Cicero, Groucho Marx, George Orwell, Marcel Proust, William Faulkner, E.L. Doctorow, Woody Allen, C.S. Lewis, Saul Bellow, Dorothy Parker, and hundreds more.

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"""A room without books is a body without a soul."" -- Cicero ""If you go into a room filled with books, even without taking them down from their shelves, they seem to speak to you, to welcome you."" -- William Gladstone ""If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them... Let them be your friends."" -- Nathan Pine, bookseller ""Books deserve more than digital gas."" -- Bill Henderson, from the introduction"

""A room without books is a body without a soul."" -- Cicero ""If you go into a room filled with books, even without taking them down from their shelves, they seem to speak to you, to welcome you."" -- William Gladstone ""If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them... Let them be your friends."" -- Nathan Pine, bookseller ""Books deserve more than digital gas."" -- Bill Henderson, from the introduction

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James Charlton is the editor of The Writer's Quotation Book, The Writer's Home Companion, and other titles. He lives in New York. Bill Henderson is the founder and editor of the Pushcart Prize. He received the 2006 National Book Critic Circle's Lifetime Achievement Award and the Poets & Writers / Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award. He is also the author of several memoirs, including All My Dogs: A Life. The founder of the Lead Pencil Club, Henderson lives in New York.

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