"If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure."

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"If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure."

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"Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed."

Diana Gabaldon, American Author

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"A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away."

Phyllis McGinley, American Author

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Izaak Walton, English Writer

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"Before I shall have become a man again I shall probably exist as a park, a sort of natural park in which people come to rest, to while away the time. What they say or do will be of little matter, for they will bring only their fatigue, their boredom, their hopelessness."

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Chloe Thurlow, British Novelist

Leisure, Solitude, Pleasure, Reading, Happiness

"Nice passion is reading."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Reading... a vacation for the mind...."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

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Izaak Walton, English Writer

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get."

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"If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure."

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