"No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one."

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"With a book he was regardless of time."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Reading, Books, Time, Passion, Escape

"What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Reading, Joy, Books, Passion

"A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Reading, Books, Change, Perspective

"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Reading, Read

"Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Reading, Thinking, Perspective, Learning

"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Reading, Woman

"You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Reading, Read

"The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

Reading, Books, Love, Gift, Knowledge

"By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Reading, History, Thought, Reflection

"Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Getting caught is the mother of invention."

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"Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life."

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"Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo."

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"Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses."

Will

"Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography."

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"Prejudices save time."

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"A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life."

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"With a book he was regardless of time."

"What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever."

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"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."

"Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own."

"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."

"You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else."

"The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods."

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"Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading."

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"Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life."

"Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo."

"Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses."

"Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography."

"Prejudices save time."

"A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life."

"There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on."

"One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas."

"Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least."