Reading Quotes - Page 4

• Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

  Frederick Douglass

  Book, Forever, Literacy

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• A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

  William Styron

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Books do furnish a room.

  Anthony Powell

  Book, Rooms

  Title of novel (1971)

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• A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

  Norman Cousins

  Book, Ideas, History

  Norman Cousins (1967). “Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey”

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• The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Real, Educational

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

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Inspirational, Motivational, Money

  Desiderius Erasmus' letter to Jacob Batt, April 12, 1500.

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• Books are a uniquely portable magic.

  Stephen King

  Education, Kings, Book

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Educational, Book, Luxury

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• Read much, but not many works.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

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• Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

  Francois Mauriac

  Enough, Knows, Ifs

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• The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Writing, Feels

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• A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.

  Edward P. Morgan

  Inspirational, Book, Reading Books

  Edward P. Morgan (1963). “Clearing the air”, Washington, D.C.

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• Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

  Harry S. Truman

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

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• If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

  Toni Morrison

  Inspirational, Happiness, Attitude

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• That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Funny, Book, Expectations

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• It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Life, Book, Wish

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• Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Book, Knowledge, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

  Harper Lee

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Powerful

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Friendship, Education

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.

  David L. Ulin

  Landscape, Resistance, Distraction

  "In The Age of Distraction, We Need One Thing More Than Ever: Books" by Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2011.

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• My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

  Edward Gibbon

  Love, Book, India

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• A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

  David Mitchell

  Book

  David Mitchell (2007). “Number9Dream: A Novel”, p.365, Random House

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• I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.

  Charles Bukowski

  Inspirational, Funny, Book

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

  Edward Gibbon

  Book, Hero, Mirrors

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