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"Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading."
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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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"A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it."
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"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."
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"Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own."
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"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."
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"You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else."
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"The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods."
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"By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas."
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"We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still."
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"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."
Innovation
"I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while."
Faith
"I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things."
Focus
"Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity."
Emotion
"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
Genius
"Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant."
Justice
"What is once well done is done forever."
Wisdom
"A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will."
Thought
"I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness."
Friendship
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