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"We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next."
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"By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors."
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"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
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"There is no other enjoyment like reading."
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"One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing."
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"A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish between his fingers. A reader, on the other hand, must check the desire for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good, but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist or an authority, is very apt to kill what suits us to consider the more humane passion for pure and disinterested reading."
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"I read anything that's going to be interesting. But you don't know what it is until you've read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there'll be the making of a novel."
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"Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages."
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"I started reading when I was about three, a little over three."
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"It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too."Are you, Joe?"Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!" he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!"
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"The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse."
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"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
Intelligence
"Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love."
Love
"People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned."
People
"Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps."
Goal
"There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war."
War
"No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection."
Fear
"When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice."
Advice
"All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac."
Woman
"We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next."
Reading
"In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California."
Los Angeles
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