"If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all."

Reading, Time, Values, Wisdom

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"If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all."

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"Easy reading is damn hard writing."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

Reading, Writing

"Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Reading, Books, Mind, Escape, Suffering

"With a book he was regardless of time."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Reading, Books, Time, Passion, Escape

"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."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

Reading, Knowledge, Books, Curiosity

"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."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Reading, Joy, Books, Passion

"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."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Reading, Impact, Culture, Imagination

"Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it."

Stephen King, American Author

Reading, Time, Distraction, Television

"The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor."

Stephen King, American Author

Reading, Wisdom, Inspirational, Future

"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

Reading, Read

"I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat."

Pierre Trudeau, Canadian Statesman

Reading, Government, Fact, State

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"He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years."

Vision

"History, a distillation of rumour."

History

"The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then."

Fear

"The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity."

Authenticity

"His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps."

Doubt

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"Easy reading is damn hard writing."

"Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw."

"With a book he was regardless of time."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it."

"The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor."

"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."

"I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat."

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"Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong."

"One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities."

"All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads and sows itself anew."

"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."

"Clever men are good, but they are not the best."

"He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years."

"History, a distillation of rumour."

"The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then."

"The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity."

"His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps."