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Continue to ChatBut I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas have lasted thousands of years . . . I hope I am always walled in by the very weight and breadth and clumsy, inefficient, antiquated bulk of them, hope that I spend my last days on this Earth arranging and rearranging them on thrones of good, honest pine, oak, and mahogany, because I just like to look at their covers, and dream of the promise of the great stories inside. - Rick Bragg from https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/but-i-hope-i-will-never-have-a-life-that-is-not-surrounded-by-books-by-books-that-are-bound-in-paper-and-cloth