I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to read new books," and I hollered "Comrade!" to whoever owned it before me.
I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never been able to make that claim and… - Helene Hanff
I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never been able to make that claim and…
- Helene Hanff
What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age? - Helene Hanff
What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age?
I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone … - Helene Hanff
I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone …
If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much. - Helene Hanff
If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.
My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at the bottom of page 20, say, I rea… - Helene Hanff
My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at the bottom of page 20, say, I rea…
I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. - Helene Hanff
I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest.
I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die. - Helene Hanff
I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die.
I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution. - Helene Hanff
I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.
Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all. - Helene Hanff
Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all.
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