Caroline Starr Rose

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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate converse with men of unseen genertions — such is a pleasure beyond compare.

-Yosida Kenko

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  1. Irene Latham says

    February 25, 2010 at 12:32 pm

    Yes… for me I think it’s all about feeling. I want to feel things. I totally read for the emotional experience.

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  2. Piedmont Writer says

    February 25, 2010 at 12:49 pm

    Yes…to escape. To somewhere where this woman has never gone before.

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  3. Jonathon Arntson says

    February 25, 2010 at 2:00 pm

    There is no comparable pleasure, you’re right.

    Peanut butter is close.

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  4. Rowenna says

    February 25, 2010 at 2:29 pm

    Oooh…I like that quote. Intimate conversations with unseen generations…shivers!

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  5. Elle Strauss says

    February 25, 2010 at 7:57 pm

    No better way to travel and have adventures without having to sleep in a strange bed!

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  6. Shannon O'Donnell says

    February 25, 2010 at 10:20 pm

    Nothing transports us like reading. Great quote! 🙂

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  7. Daisy Whitney says

    February 26, 2010 at 7:37 pm

    A pleasure beyond compare. So true!

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