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I could imagine his sorrow. My father had a sensual relationship with his books. He loved feeling them, stroking them, sniffing them. He took a physical pleasure in books: he could not stop himself, he had to reach out and touch them, even other people's books. And books then really were sexier than books today: they were good to sniff and stroke and fondle. There were books with gold writing on fragrant, slightly rough leather bindings, that gave you gooseflesh when you touched them, as though you were groping something private and inaccessible, something that seemed to tremble at your touch. And there were other books that were bound in cloth-covered cardboard, stuck with a glue that had a wonderful smell. Every book had its own private, provocative scent. Sometimes the cloth came away from the cardboard, like a saucy skirt, and it was hard to resist the temptation to peep into the dark space between body and clothing and sniff those dizzying smells. Father would generally return — Amos Oz

I want you to know there's nothing ... nothing to be afraid of. On one side, there's life. And on the other ... there's life, too. — John Dye

Luxury hasn't been democratised; it's been globalised. — Francois-Henri Pinault

I'll turn into a god of pain and disease and build an altar to you from the bones of your murderer. Their suffering will be my first odes, and they will not end until I feel satisfied that even dead, resting wherever you are resting, you can hear the pain of the idiot that thought your death would go unavenged. — Ayize Jama-Everett

I hate cheaters. I despise men and women who double-dip. It's disgusting. — Violetta Rand

The beginning of greatness is to be little; the increase of greatness is to be less; the perfection of greatness is to be nothing. — Isaac Nunoofio

To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description. — Deb Caletti

I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels. — Lisa Marie Presley

I don't mind losing. Losing is like breathing to me. — Lisa Lutz

Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die. — Herbert Hoover