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James Joyce

"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why."

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"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why."

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

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"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"

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"There is no other enjoyment like reading."

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"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."

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"Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read."

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"Explorers have to be ready to die lost."

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"The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination."

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

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"Books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life."

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"Kindle, isn't it? the waitress asked. "I got one for Christmas, and I love it. I'm reading my way through all of Jodi Picoult's books. "Oh, probably not all of them, Wesley said. "Huh? Why not? "She's probably got another one done already. That's all I meant. "And James Patterson's probably written one since he got up this morning! she said, and went off chortling."

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"Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor."
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"You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too."
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