Time is the currency - the highest valued currency we have now. And people giving you their time is so incredible. They don't have to like your book, either. That's a totally separate gift.
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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.
To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.
If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.
Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you feel you've actually changed their life in some way.
There is no greater gift than time.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
I love to both give and receive very old books.
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
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