grew a rural area, seen farmhouses come go, dent left cellars permanen — Paul Collins, Sixpence House: Lost a Town Books

Paul Collins Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books

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If you grew up in a rural area, you have seen how farmhouses come and go, but the dent left by cellars is permanent. There is something unbreakable in that hand-dug foundational gouge into the earth. Books are the cellars of civilization: when cultures crumble away, their books remain out of sheer stupid solidity.

Paul Collins, Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books

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