Line #5 Quotes/Doorstopper


1	->''"On the other hand, there were proper ways of entering a library. He waddled over to the shelves and selected Humptulip's seminal work ''How to Kille Insects''. All 2,000 pages of it."''
2	-->-- '''Creator/TerryPratchett''', ''Literature/MenAtArms''
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4	->''"... there is an ever-increasing body of opinion which holds that the ''Ultra-Complete Maximegalon Dictionary'' is not worth the fleet of lorries it takes to cart its microstored edition around in."''
5	-->-- ''Literature/LifeTheUniverseAndEverything''
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7	->''"No wonder the Fantasy section has reinforced shelving."''
8	-->-- '''''Webcomic/{{Unshelved}}''''' [[http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060723 on]] ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''
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10	->''"''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' is three books long, and each book is as long as three books!"''
11	-->-- '''Marco''', ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}''
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13	->''"A big book is a big evil."''
14	-->-- '''Callimachus''', poet and catalogue writer of the Library of Alexandria
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16	->''"I do not know how successful ''The Kindly Ones'' was, how close I got or how far I came from what I set out to say. Still, it's the heaviest of all of these volumes, and thus, in hardback at least, could undoubtedly be used [[ImprovisedWeapon to stun a burglar]]; which has always been my definition of [[TrueArt real art]]."''
17	-->-- '''Creator/NeilGaiman''', afterword to ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' Volume 9.
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19	->''"How long is [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows this one]]? Because I've promised to read the whole thing to my son. I read him the last one, ''Harry Potter and the Structurally Reinforced Bedside Table''."''
20	-->-- '''Hugh Dennis''', ''Series/MockTheWeek''.
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22	->''"[[UsefulBook I like a thick book because it will]] steady a table, a leather volume to strop a razor and a heavy book to throw at the cat."''
23	-->-- '''Creator/MarkTwain'''
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25	->''"You decide to consult with the Colonel's bottomless wisdom. Good grief this thing is huge. It could kill a cat if you dropped it."''
26	-->-- '''''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'''''
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28	->''"Do you realize this adventure is nearing 5000 panels? And now we have to watch you [[Webcomic/{{Jailbreak}} flounder around in a jail cell]] for god knows how long? Exactly how many panels do you want this to go on for? [[MemeticMutation Over 9000]]? Nobody wants that. Nobody even wants to hear the phrase "over 9000"."''
29	-->-- '''''[[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} Homestuck Again]]'''''
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31	->''"If attention span was dead, Creator/JKRowling wouldn't be selling paperbacks thick enough to choke a pig, and Creator/NealStephenson wouldn't be making a living off books the size of the first bedsit I lived in."''
32	-->-- '''Creator/WarrenEllis''' in notes to ''ComicBook/DoktorSleepless'' #6
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34	->''"I want to unwind, not read a book that's longer than Rapunzel's pubic hair!"''
35	-->-- '''[[Series/RedDwarf Arnold Rimmer]]''' on ''Literature/WarAndPeace'', '''[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonXFathersAndSuns "Fathers and Suns"]]'''
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37	->''"So if any of you hear someone pronounce her name [[Creator/JKRowling "Rohw-ling"]], you have my permission to hit them over the head with — not with [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]], that would be cruel. Something smaller, like a fridge."''
38	-->-- '''Creator/StephenFry'''
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40	->''"Here is my outdated copy of the Book of Judgement. I sometimes use it as a support beam"''
41	-->--'''Rogal Dorn''', ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice''
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43	->''"Thick runs the plot (as well as the spine)."''
44	-->--'''Blurb''', ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix''

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