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The reading or non-reading
a book will never keep down a single petticoat. Lord Byron
A man ought to read just as
his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do
him little good.
Samuel Johnson
There are books . . . which
take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate
experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so
authoritative.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A classic is a book that doesn't
have to be written again.
Carl Van Doren
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.
Umberto Eco
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.
William Penn
The only books that influence
us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little
farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
E. M. Forster
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.
Carlos Fuentes
Reading a book is like re-writing
it for yourself. . . . You bring to a novel, anything you read,
all your experience of the world. You bring your history and
you read it in your own terms.
Angela Carter
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