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"It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too."Are you, Joe?"Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!" he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!"
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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."
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"Easy reading is damn hard writing."
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"Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw."
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"He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule."
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"With a book he was regardless of time."
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"I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."
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"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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"Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect."
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"Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it."
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"The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor."
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"There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs."
Empathy
"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."
Positive
"Minds like bodies will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort."
Health
"The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother."
Unity
"If the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right."
Philosophy
"Umble we are 'umble we have been 'umble we shall ever be."
Philosophy
"I'm a devil at a quick mistake, and when I make one it takes the form of Lead."
Humor
"All this time I had never been able to consider my own situation, nor could I do so yet. I had not the power to attend to it. I was greatly dejected and distressed, but in an incoherent wholesale sort of way. As to forming any plan for the future, I could as soon have formed an elephant. When I opened the shutters and looked out at the wet wild morning, all of a leaden hue; when I walked from room to room; when I sat down again shivering, before the fire, waiting for my laundress to appear; I thought how miserable I was, but hardly knew why, or how long I had been so, or on what day of the week I made the reflection, or even who I was that made it."
Emotion
"A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it."
Dream
"Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly."
Wisdom
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