"Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read."
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"Tis the good reader that makes the good book."
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"I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read."
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"Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible"
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"Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading."
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"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."
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"Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away, reach for another, blow, wad, flush. Everyone using everyone else's coattails. How are you supposed to root for the home team when you don't even have a program or know the names? For that matter, what color jersey's are they reading as they trot out to the feild?"
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"From reading of the people I admired - ranging from the soldiers of Valley Forge and Morgan's riflemen to my Southern forefathers and kinfolk - I felt a great admiration for men who were fearless and who could hold their own in the world. And I had a great desire to be like them."
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"Beware of the person of one book."
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"I cannot live without books."
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"Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing."
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"Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground."
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"I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between."
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"If anyone's reading this waiting for some type of full-on, flat apology for anything, they should just stop reading right now."
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"The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts."
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"Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?"
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"Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude."
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"A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading."
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"I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world."
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"There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger."
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