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• In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.

  Harold Bloom

  Book, Reading, Matter

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• When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

  Blaise Pascal

  Book, Reading

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.31, Letcetera Publishing

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• History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.

  David McCullough

  Betrayal, Book, Reading

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• A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Book, Reading, Doctors

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.

  Robert Burchfield

  Book, Reading, Relief

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• Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  W. Somerset Maugham (1941). “the Gentleman in the Parlour”

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• To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Book, Reading

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• As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer.

  Toni Morrison

  Dream, Book, Reading

  Toni Morrison (2007). “Playing in the Dark”, p.19, Vintage

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• Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.

  Andre Maurois

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Good readers make much out of little.

  Irving Howe

  Book, Reading, Littles

  Irving Howe (1995). “A Critic's Notebook”, Harvest Books

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• To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.

  Henry James

  Book, Reading, Read Between The Lines

  Henry James (2016). “Henry James: The Complete Novels [The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, etc.] (Book House)”, p.928, Book House

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• If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better but because they contain precisely those truths of which our own age is neglectful.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Reading, Age

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• The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.

  Lynda Barry

  Art, Book, Reading

  The Onion Interview, www.avclub.com. December 8, 1999.

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• I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Reading, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.103, Harvard University Press

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• A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

  T. S. Eliot

  Book, Reading, Offended

  1935 Religion and Literature.

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• W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.

  W. C. Fields

  Bible, Book, Reading

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• There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Stupid, Book, Reading

  "The "Characters" of Jean de la Bruyère". Book by Jean de La Bruyère. Translated by Henri Van Laun, 1885.

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• Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.

  LeVar Burton

  Book, Reading, Ipads

  "Levar Burton launches the "Next generation" reading rainbow app... And returns to 'community'!" by Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2012.

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• Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Tubs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.78, Harvard University Press

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• Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Brother, Book, Reading

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Reading, Smell

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.233, Modern Library

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• I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Reading, Honest

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.71, Courier Corporation

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• They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.

  Marcel Proust

  Book, Reading, Successful

  Marcel Proust (1966). “Letters of Marcel Proust”

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• The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.

  Maimonides

  Book, Reading, Men

  Moses Maimonides, Isadore Twersky (1972). “A Maimonides Reader”, p.465, Behrman House, Inc

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• In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Book, Reading

  Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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