"Reading had always been, through bad, boring, or better times, his best connection to humans."

Reading, Connection, Books, Humanity

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"Reading had always been, through bad, boring, or better times, his best connection to humans."

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

David Mitchell, British Novelist

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

Dean Koontz, American Author

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

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

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"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

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"Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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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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"Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers."

Barbara Kingsolver, American Novelist

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"Back home. What wonderful words. What a wonderful place."

Home

"He had no ability to give up. It wasn't that he didn't want to quit, he couldn't. It wasn't in him. It never had been."

Persistence

"I assumed that looking back reminded older guys of what they had shot at and missed, the what-ifs, the good memories, the bad, the people left behind, the people who moved on."

Memory

"Human thought and human caring go on in one brain and one heart at a time. Groups are necessary. Regulations are necessary. Government, I would hope limited government, is necessary. But it all starts with the individual. Everything that is accomplished starts with one person, even if the group steps in and helps; it's still one brain and one heart at a time."

Society

"Sometimes, you need to spit stuff out in words to get it better arranged in your head. I figure if you never talk about it, it just picks its own spot and lays there and festers."

Communication

"Music is the sound of unspoken thoughts."

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"A hopeful journey is more important than the destination."

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"As I have aged, I've been lucky never to reach old. Old is always at least five or ten years beyond my current calendar stage."

Age

"There's nothing wrong with fighting when you have no choice. As a matter of fact, it's what you should do, but when you fight, fight to win."

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"It seems to me that smart people seem to know things and wise people know how to use what they know. Smart is a big help to a man, wise is a big help to lots of men."

Wisdom