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Books are a way of saying: This room seems to have more than its fair share of bozos in it Picture Quote #1

Incapable of conjuring up any facial expression that she did not learn from watching television, Jessica Alba plays a brilliant scientist who inadvertently acquires the ability to make herself invisible. This is not a gift Alba seems particularly comfortable with, as the last thing she needs is to be heard but not seen Picture Quote #1

Here I am referring to the types of books that thirtyish women devour at private swim clubs, often to the dismay of their drowning children Picture Quote #1

Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise Picture Quote #1

As was the case in Requiem for a Dream, Pollock, A Beautiful Mind, House of Sand and Fog, The Hulk and Dark Water, Jennifer Connelly’s mere presence in a film guarantees that things will turn out badly for the male lead, as Connelly is always cast as the Angel of Death. Fun to hang out with, great eyes, amazing eyebrows, but the Angel of Death Picture Quote #1

Martin Scorcese is probably America’s greatest living director, and while he is not a titan like John Ford or Alfred Hitchcock or Federico Fellini, he is certainly consistently more interesting than Steven Spielberg, Brian de Palma, Francis Ford Coppola or Woody Allen. Even a failure like Gangs of New York or a curiosity like The Aviator is more interesting and ambitious than Munich, The Black Dahlia or Scoop Picture Quote #1

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It was once argued that ‘Starring Sylvester Stallone’ were the three scariest words in the English language but until I saw Adam Sandler I’d always thought the three scariest words in the English language were ‘starring Dan Aykroyd.’ Picture Quote #1

Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have these epic, improbable reading projects arrayed before us, we cannot breathe our last: Tell the Angel of Death to come back later; I haven’t quite finished Villette Picture Quote #1

Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons Picture Quote #1

Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning Picture Quote #1

Purists maintain that if you go to a baseball game you will almost always see something you have never seen before. Unfortunately, it usually takes place in the stands Picture Quote #1

People who need to possess the physical copy of a book, and not merely an electronic version, are in some sense mysteics. We believe that the objects themselves are sacred, not just the stories they tell. We believe that books possess the power to transubstantiate, to turn darkness into light, to make being out of nothingness Picture Quote #1

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Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind Picture Quote #1

My books have been part of my life forever. They have been good soldiers, boon companions. Every book has survived numerous purges over the years; each book has repeatedly been called onto the carpet and asked to explain itself. I own no book that has not fought the good fight, taken on all comers, and earned the right to remain. If a book is there, it is there for a reason Picture Quote #1

Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful Picture Quote #1

Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have vision problems, or who like to read on the subway, or who do not want other people to see how they are amusing themselves, or who have storage and clutter issues, but they are useless for people who are engaged in an intense, lifelong love affair with books. Books that we can touch; books that we can smell; books that we can depend on Picture Quote #1

Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone to eat a chicken biryani without so much as inquiring whether they like cilantro Picture Quote #1

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Books are a way of saying: This room seems to have more than its fair share of bozos in it (Joe Queenan Quotes) Incapable of conjuring up any facial expression that she did not learn from watching television, Jessica Alba plays a brilliant scientist who inadvertently acquires the ability to make herself invisible. This is not a gift Alba seems particularly comfortable with, as the last thing she needs is to be heard but not seen. (Joe Queenan Quotes) Here I am referring to the types of books that thirtyish women devour at private swim clubs, often to the dismay of their drowning children. (Joe Queenan Quotes) Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise. (Joe Queenan Quotes) As was the case in Requiem for a Dream, Pollock, A Beautiful Mind, House of Sand and Fog, The Hulk and Dark Water, Jennifer Connelly’s mere presence in a film guarantees that things will turn out badly for the male lead, as Connelly is always cast as the Angel of Death. Fun to hang out with, great eyes, amazing eyebrows, but the Angel of Death. (Joe Queenan Quotes) Martin Scorcese is probably America’s greatest living director, and while he is not a titan like John Ford or Alfred Hitchcock or Federico Fellini, he is certainly consistently more interesting than Steven Spielberg, Brian de Palma, Francis Ford Coppola or Woody Allen. Even a failure like Gangs of New York or a curiosity like The Aviator is more interesting and ambitious than Munich, The Black Dahlia or Scoop. (Joe Queenan Quotes) It was once argued that ‘Starring Sylvester Stallone’ were the three scariest words in the English language but until I saw Adam Sandler I’d always thought the three scariest words in the English language were ‘starring Dan Aykroyd.’ (Joe Queenan Quotes) Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have these epic, improbable reading projects arrayed before us, we cannot breathe our last: Tell the Angel of Death to come back later; I haven’t quite finished Villette (Joe Queenan Quotes) Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons (Joe Queenan Quotes) Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning (Joe Queenan Quotes) Purists maintain that if you go to a baseball game you will almost always see something you have never seen before. Unfortunately, it usually takes place in the stands (Joe Queenan Quotes) People who need to possess the physical copy of a book, and not merely an electronic version, are in some sense mysteics. We believe that the objects themselves are sacred, not just the stories they tell. We believe that books possess the power to transubstantiate, to turn darkness into light, to make being out of nothingness (Joe Queenan Quotes) Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind (Joe Queenan Quotes) My books have been part of my life forever. They have been good soldiers, boon companions. Every book has survived numerous purges over the years; each book has repeatedly been called onto the carpet and asked to explain itself. I own no book that has not fought the good fight, taken on all comers, and earned the right to remain. If a book is there, it is there for a reason (Joe Queenan Quotes) Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful (Joe Queenan Quotes) Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have vision problems, or who like to read on the subway, or who do not want other people to see how they are amusing themselves, or who have storage and clutter issues, but they are useless for people who are engaged in an intense, lifelong love affair with books. Books that we can touch; books that we can smell; books that we can depend on (Joe Queenan Quotes) Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone to eat a chicken biryani without so much as inquiring whether they like cilantro (Joe Queenan Quotes)