"His eyes gravitated towards the wall-to-wall bookshelf at one end of the room. 'You folks like books, I see."

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We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday’s films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep the plays of dead dramatists upon our bookshelves, but the actor who holds his audience captive for one brief moment upon a lighted stage vanishes forever when the curtain falls.

— Daphne du Maurier