"What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it."
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"Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something."
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"Most of my reading is rereading."
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"Some men have only one book in them, others a library."
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"So much working, reading, thinking, living to do. A lifetime is not long enough. Nor youth to old age long enough. Immortality and permanence be damned. Sure I want them, but they are nonexistent, and won't matter when I rot underground. All I want to say is: I made the best of a mediocre job. It was a good fight while it lasted. And so life goes."
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"A children's biography doesn't have to be comprehensive, and it doesn't have to be definitive. It does have to be accurate, to the extent that's possible. And most of all, it has to be a piece of literature, a compelling read. I want the reader to discover the joy of reading."
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"We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity."
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"This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it."
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"I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work."
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"To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it."
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"When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting."
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"Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to learn warfare through warfare. A person who has had no opportunity to go to school can also learn warfare — he can learn through fighting in a war."
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"Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors."
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"We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves. Use reading-aloud time as bonding time, as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside."
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"Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)"
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"A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author."
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"In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self."
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"the more the merrier. so enjoy reading more books"
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"He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing."
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"A man is like a two-story house. The first floor is equipped with an entrance and a living room. On the second floor is every family member's room. They enjoy listening to music and reading books. On the first underground floor is the ruin of people's memories. The room filled with darkness is the second underground floor."
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