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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."

"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."

"A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it."

"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."

"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."

"Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own."
Explore more quotes by Helen Gurley Brown

"Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep."

"Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort."

"One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with."

"After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money."
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