"Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books."
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"The heart changes...but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phenomena, is so gradual that, even if we are able to distinguish, successively, each of its different states, we are still spared the actual sensation of change."
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"Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books."
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"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad."
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"I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people."
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"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing 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 adore watching movies; movie marathons are my favorite pastime. I can watch up to five movies back to back. I also love music and like reading whenever I get the time."
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"That love is all there is, Is all we know of love."
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"People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history."
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"Reading changes your life. Reading unlocks worlds unknown or forgotten, taking travelers around the world and through time. Reading helps you escape the confines of school and pursue your own education. Through characters - the saints and the sinners, real or imagined - reading shows you how to be a better human being."
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"A man is known by the books he reads."
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"The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most."
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"Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It’s not just a question of how-to, you see; it’s also a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing."
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"I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive."
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"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote."
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"Literature is news that stays news."
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"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends."
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"I spend a lot of time reading."
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"[Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of Holy Scripture, and have questioned some cleric about the truths of the faith. After that, they boast that they have searched in books and among men in vain."
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"Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still."
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