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"I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness."
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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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"I started reading when I was about three, a little over three."
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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 decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse."
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"I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness."
Reading
"The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter."
War
"A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season."
Growth
"The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head."
Love
"Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!"
Language
"Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do."
People
"When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing."
Finance
"I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's."
Life
"I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?"
Life
"Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom."
Age
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