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"I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget."
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
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"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"
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"There is no other enjoyment like reading."
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"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."
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"Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read."
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"The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination."
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"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."
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"Kindle, isn't it? the waitress asked. "I got one for Christmas, and I love it. I'm reading my way through all of Jodi Picoult's books. "Oh, probably not all of them, Wesley said. "Huh? Why not? "She's probably got another one done already. That's all I meant. "And James Patterson's probably written one since he got up this morning! she said, and went off chortling."
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"Read a short story every day."
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"I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned."
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"This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him."
Respect
"You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York."
Nature
"In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks."
Business
"A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him."
Body
"If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible."
People
"If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens."
Painting
"Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense."
Nature
"Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money."
Money
"There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit they enjoy life."
Life
"A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices."
Birds
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