"Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us."

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"Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us."

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

David Mitchell, British Novelist

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

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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"You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

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"By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers."

Barbara Kingsolver, American Novelist

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"We don't need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have mastered is the occasional capacity to acknowledge with good grace that we may, in one or two areas, be somewhat insane."

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"My dad was a slightly stricter version of Richard Dawkins. The worldview was that there are idiots out there who believe in Santa Claus and fairies and magic and elves, and we're not joining that nonsense."

Belief

"We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep cliff face of happiness in order to reach a wide, high plateau on which we will live out the rest of our lives; we are not reminded that soon after gaining the summit, we will be called down again into fresh lowlands of anxiety and desire."

Emotion

"Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from."

Emotion

"Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one--that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life."

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"Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for."

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"Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough."

Growth

"The death of marriage has been announced so often and would seem so normal, in a sense. So what's surprising is the sheer longevity and tenacity of this institution."

Relationship

"We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves."

Identity

"Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself."

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