If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.
Interpretation
The quote humorously suggests that a true book lover should never have enough space for their collection, implying an endless thirst for knowledge.
Terry Pratchett's quote highlights the notion that passionate readers are never satisfied with the amount of books they possess; rather, they constantly seek more literature to explore, learn from, and enjoy. The humor lies in the exaggeration that having enough space somehow correlates with a lack of desire or enthusiasm for reading, as if a true bibliophile would always crave additional books, regardless of their current collection size.
In practice
This quote could be shared at a book club meeting to spark a discussion about favorite books.
And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.
They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the new Tyrant is. One man ... one vet. ... Everyone has ... the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extraction. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lots of other people. But everyone apart from them. It's a very enlightened civilization.
Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.
People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.
Ben Franklin was a little stout later in life and it was said that in Paris a young woman, tapping him on his protruding abdomen, said,"Dr. Franklin, if this were on a woman, we'd know what to think." And Franklin replied,"Half an hour ago, Mademoiselle, it was on a woman, and now what do you think?"
Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.
I can hardly forbear hurling things at him.
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there's slightly too much food. I have a friend whose mantra is: You must choose. And I believe the exact opposite: I think you should always have at least four desserts that are kind of fighting with each other.
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