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Books - reading

Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

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You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

Ruskin, John

A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.

Carey, Joyce

There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Proverb, Italian

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

Eco, Umberto

To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.

Ruskin, John

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

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

Bennett, Arnold

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

Dane, Frank

The age of the book is almost gone.

Steiner, George

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When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Socrates

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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Hugo, Victor

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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

Porter, Noah

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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Chambers, Robert

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The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

Mencken, H. L.

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The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Rohn, Jim

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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Aubrey, John

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There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

Mencken, H. L.

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A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

Traherne, Thomas

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.

Milton, John

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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Bevan, Aneurin

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I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

Thurber, James

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From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Marx, Groucho

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Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

Penn, William

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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

Rohn, Jim

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A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there -- that of the pulse, the heart beat.

Miller, Henry

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Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette --throw Roderick Random into the closet --put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man; thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster; there --put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Trollope, Anthony

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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Morely, John

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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

West, Jessamyn

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Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.

Eagleton, Terry

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Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

Wesley, John

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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Chappell, Warren

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I am a part of everything that I have read.

Kieran, John

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Beware of the person of one book.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

Twain, Mark