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He fed his spirit with the bread of books.
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He had never fed of the dainties that are bred in a hook; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink, his intellect is not replenished.
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He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
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He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
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He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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How vast an estate it is that we came into as the intellectual heirs of all the watchers and searchers and thinkers and singers of the generations that are dead!
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Hypocrite reader — my fellow — my brother!
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I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.’ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I can look at [my books] with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.
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I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single question, From how deep and true an impulse did it spring? Was it written merely to shock? Only to make money? Or was it written to create somethin.
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I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than book or orator.’ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
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I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.’
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I don’t think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
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I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart’s history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.
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I feel like I’m drowning. Every night, I’m carrying home loads of things to read but I’m too exhausted. I keep clipping things and Xeroxing them and planning to read them eventually, but I just end up throwing it all away and feeling guilty.
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I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing.
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