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"The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it."
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"Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others."
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"Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong."
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"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."
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"She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me."
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"No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table."
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"Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time."
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"When you read a book put all of your effort into staying present and focus your energy towards the comprehension of each and every word and how you can apply it into your daily life."
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"I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed."
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"I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child."
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"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."
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"Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation."
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"The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it."
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"The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion."
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"Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation."
Travel

"Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits."
Democracy
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