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But everything of value about me is in my books.
-V. S. Naipaul
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But Everything Of Value About Me Is

V. S. Naipaul
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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The books in mo and meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. there where books in the kitchen and books in the lavatory. books on the tv set and in the closet, small piles of books, tall piles of books, books thick and thin, books old and new. they welcomed meggie down to breakfast with invitingly opened pages; they kept boredom at bay when the weather was bad. and sometimes you fall over them.
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I am a product of endless books. my father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. there were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic...in the seemingly endless rainy afternoons i took volume after volume from the shelves. i had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.
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The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. meant-to-be-picked-up books. permanently-left-behind books. uncertain-what-to-do-with books. but books, books. tall cases lined three walls of the room, filled to and beyond capacity. the overflow had been piled in stacks on the floor. there was little space left for walking, and none whatever for pacing.
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I'm not really into comfort books. there are too many of those as it is. just sort of narcotic books, like my grandmother used to read. they have value like paxil has value, but there's plenty of them in the world already. there's a shortage of confronting, stimulating, exciting books.
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