It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: … - Helene Hanff

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Know who you are, because that's how you will be cast at first. Then you can be Meryl Streep further down the road.

Helene Hanff

It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open at the most delightful places as the ghost of its former owner points me to things I've never read before.

Fall, Ghost, Looks, Open, Pristine

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Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.

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If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.

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I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.

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Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?

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Fact One: Cataract surgery is simple, painless and (except with implants) risk free. . . the whole procedure is common, routine and nothing to worry about. Fact Two: Fact One applies only to cataracts on the eyes in somebody else's head.

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