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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Adler, Mortimer J.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

Hunt, Leigh

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet -- if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

Miller, Henry

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring

Chappell, Warren

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.

Carlyle, Thomas

A book worth reading is worth buying.

Ruskin, John

Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

Rosenbach, A. S. W.

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

Burgess, Anthony

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This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.

Parker, Dorothy

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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Williams, Bert

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A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Johnson, Samuel

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Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

Temple, Sir William

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The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it --when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.

Rushdie, Salman

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Beware of the person of one book.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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You will be the same person in five as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

Critchfield, Jim

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Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.

Blackie, Professor

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In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.

Rosten, Leo

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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Benjamin, Walter

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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

Spielberg, Steven

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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Chambers, Oswald

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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason: they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. Those works, therefore, are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. understand them.

Clarendon

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The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.

Orwell, George

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Five daily newspapers arrive in my California driveway. The New York times and the Wall Street Journal are supplemented by three local papers. As for magazines, I read, or at least skim, Business Week, Forbes, The Economist, INC; Industry Week, Fortune. Other subscriptions include Sales and Marketing Management, Modern Health Care, Progressive Grocer, High Tech Business, and Slaon Management Review from MIT. I religiously read Business Tokyo, Asia Week, and Far Eastern Economic Review. I glance at Newsweek and Time ... but I devour the New Republic, Policy Review, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Monthly, and Public Interest. How about books? A dozen or more each month.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Fusselman, W.

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Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

Gibbon, Edward

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The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

Proverb, American

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Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Davies, Paul

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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Mccosh

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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

Wycherley, William

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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Terry, Helen

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The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Marcel, Anthony

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The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

Byron, Lord

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Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

Baker, Nicholson

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Read good, big important things.

Noonan, Peggy

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There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

Mencken, H. L.

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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Sandwell, B. K.

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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Edwards, Tryon

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Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Mallarme, Stephane

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The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.

Benjamin, Walter

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The newest books are those that never grow old.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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No furniture is so charming as books.

Smith, Sydney

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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

Brookner, Anita

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A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.