"When you want to read the book, come read the book. When you want to come talk to me and be my friend, come talk to me."
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"Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else."
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"I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of doing as they did, I went into the stacks and read the first book written by an author whose name began with Z. I received the highest grade in the class. That convinced me that the institution was not being run correctly. I left."
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"Inside that book, it's my life-all the places where I'm hurting or I laughed or I cried or I prayed. And I've had to pray a lot!"
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"There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay."
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"If I open a book and see that the author is accusing an adversary of "infantile leftism" I shut it again right away. That's not my way of doing things; I don't belong to the world of people who do things that way. I insist on this difference as something essential: a whole morality is at stake; the one that concerns the search for truth and the relation to the other."
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"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature."
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"Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . ."
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"I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town."
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"Time is a river, and books are boats."
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"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all."
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"Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly, I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Leonore - For the rare and radiant maiden who the angels name Lenore - Nameless here for evermore."
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"In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice."
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"The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning."
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"The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation, neither are they transmitted by book learning. The mystic tradition, any mystic tradition, is of a similar nature, that is, it is dependent on direct perception, a 'knowledge' as permanent as the faculty for receiving it."
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"The book is man's best invention so far."
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"....there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging in such a way that an "end" can be projected by the reader somewhere beyond the right frame. If no such convergence or projection occured to you, then the book's failed for you."
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"Exposing students to lots of books and positive reading experiences while building a network of other readers who support each other provides students with tools that last beyond the classroom setting."
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"No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot."
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"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
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