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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Gilbert Highet
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"Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Francois Mauriac
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Books are embalmed minds.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Bovee
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Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
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I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
Category: Books and Reading Author: William Lyon Phelps
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Charles Dudley Warner
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The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Ross MacDonald
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The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Samuel Butler
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I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Francesco Petrarch
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Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Augustine Birrell
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Edmund Burke
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The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Andre Maurois
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A house without books is like a room without windows.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Heinrich Mann
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From my point of view, a book is a literary prescription put up for the benefit of someone who needs it.
Category: Books and Reading Author: S M Crothers
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He fed his spirit with the bread of books.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Edwin Markham
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Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.
Category: Books and Reading Author: John Ruskin
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Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death hath no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
Category: Books and Reading Author: J Swartz
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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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