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"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."
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"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
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"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book."
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"After reading Howitt's account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening,... I asked myself why I might not be washing some golddaily, though it were only the finest particles,--why I might not sink a shaft down to the gold within me, and work that mine.... At any rate, I might pursue some path, however solitary and narrow and crooked, in which I could walk with love and reverence."
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"The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?"
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"I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."
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"Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives."
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"Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because the book does not exist for the benefit of the author, the book exists for the benefit of YOU. If we as readers can have a bigger and richer experience with the world as a result of reading a symbol and that symbol wasn't intended by the author, WE STILL WIN."
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"I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love."
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"Reading is probably another way of being in a place."
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"Reading is the inhale, writing is the exhale."
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"The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings"
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"For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading."
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"Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again."
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"Whenever Roosevelt (Theodore) expected a visitor, he sat up late the night before, reading up on the subject in which he knew his guest was particularly interested. For Roosevelt knew, all the leaders royal road to a person's heart is to talk about the things he or she treasures most."
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"As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice. Good reading becomes possible when you need not conciously think about eyes, or light, or print, or spelling. The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God."
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"The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read."
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"The current tax code is harder to understand than Bob Dylan reading Finnegans Wake in a wind tunnel."
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"Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading."
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