"Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare."

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"People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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Nicholas Sparks, American Author

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"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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Dean Koontz, American Author

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"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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