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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"The world of books is heavenly paradise."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Read good books to improve your life."

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"We encounter great souls by reading great books."

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"There is no other enjoyment like reading."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Reading opens up other pockets of the mind."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

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"Readers may be divided into four classes: I. Sponges, who absorb all they read, and return it nearly in the same state, only a little dirtied. II. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing, and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. III. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. IV. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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"Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread."

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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

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"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."

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"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."

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"The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness, of fear and pleasure, it's a little like making love, the physical act of love."

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"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding."

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"The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other."

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