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"Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer."
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"Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery."
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"Sitting eating sushi in the city, incredibly chilled out reading Nietzsche."
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"One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it."
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"I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp."
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"A book consists of two layers: on top, the readable layer ... and underneath, a layer that was inaccessible. You only sense its existence in a moment of distraction from the literal reading, the way you see childhood through a child. It would take forever to tell what you see, and it would be pointless."
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"I never tire of reading Tom Paine."
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"Oh, I’m nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I’m nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I’m working on right now. It’s a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it’s going to be fun."
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"Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense."
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"Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual."
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"I finally got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the Zebra did it."
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"I was one of those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book."
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"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?"
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"We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things."
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"No two persons ever read the same book."
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"Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own."
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"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies."
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"I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything."
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"Good books are the warehouses of ideas."
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