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"When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."
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"By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors."
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"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
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"There is no other enjoyment like reading."
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"One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing."
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"A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish between his fingers. A reader, on the other hand, must check the desire for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good, but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist or an authority, is very apt to kill what suits us to consider the more humane passion for pure and disinterested reading."
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"I read anything that's going to be interesting. But you don't know what it is until you've read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there'll be the making of a novel."
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"Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages."
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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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"The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison."
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"Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading."
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"By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one."
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"Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly."
Nothing
"As between mileage and experience choose experience."
Experience
"Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality."
Food
"Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking."
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"My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat."
Work
"I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation."
Answers
"Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something."
Experience
"When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."
Reading
"A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself."
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