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Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere |
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A good book is an event in my life |
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it |
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So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall |
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My alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity |
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I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them |
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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 |
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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader |
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Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them |
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′Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read |
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads |
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Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks |
| 13 |
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book |
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Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn’t worth re-reading |
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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me |
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Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge |
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting |
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body |
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Reading is important. If you know how to read, then the whole world opens up to you |
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers |
| 21 |
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well |
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The measure of intelligence is the ability to change |
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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 |
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it |
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A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest |
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world |
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The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t |
| 28 |
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading |
| 29 |
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them |
| 30 |
Sleep is good, he said, and books are better |
| 31 |
You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild to pick up a book and read to a child |
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A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others |
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say |
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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once |
| 35 |
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read |
| 36 |
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned |
| 37 |
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know |
| 38 |
Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book |
| 39 |
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries |
| 40 |
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in |
| 41 |
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own |
| 42 |
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all |
| 43 |
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time |
| 44 |
Children are made readers on the laps of their parents |
| 45 |
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 |
| 46 |
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere |
| 47 |
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore |
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all |
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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors |
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world |
