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 realize I can recite pages 21 and 22 from memory. Then I put the book away for a few years.
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.
- 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… - 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 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…
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.
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 …
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.
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.
Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books? - Helene Hanff
Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?
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?
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