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Reading is an act of civilization; it’s one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities |
| 2 |
Books may well be the only true magic |
| 3 |
Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading |
| 4 |
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live |
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world |
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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader |
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Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you |
| 8 |
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives |
| 9 |
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go |
| 10 |
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know |
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all |
| 12 |
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world |
| 13 |
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in |
| 14 |
Children are made readers on the laps of their parents |
| 15 |
Reading is important. If you know how to read, then the whole world opens up to you |
| 16 |
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark |
| 17 |
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own |
| 18 |
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back |
| 19 |
Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have |
| 20 |
You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild to pick up a book and read to a child |
| 21 |
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book |
| 22 |
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me |
| 23 |
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world |
| 24 |
That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet |
| 25 |
You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend |
| 26 |
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. |
| 27 |
Reading — even browsing — an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search |
| 28 |
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned |
| 29 |
Reading one book is like eating one potato chip |
| 30 |
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers |
| 31 |
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore |
| 32 |
Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape — I didn’t read to learn, I was reading to read |
| 33 |
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing |
| 34 |
The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t |
| 35 |
There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all |
| 36 |
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all |
| 37 |
Books are the mirrors of the soul |
| 38 |
If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book |
| 39 |
A good book would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit. |
| 40 |
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them |
| 41 |
Reading brings us unknown friends |
| 42 |
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries |
| 43 |
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all |
| 44 |
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book |
| 45 |
Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them |
| 46 |
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home |
| 47 |
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed |
| 48 |
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story |
| 49 |
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading |
| 50 |
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting |
