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"We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it."
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"I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!"
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"From the time I could read, I found solace in my father's library...At the ages of ten and eleven and twelve I would have preferred to remain in the library..."
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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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"Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process."
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"Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way."
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"If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads."
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"It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them, but one usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of their contents."
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"And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?"
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"Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom."
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"A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish between his fingers. A reader, on the other hand, must check the desire for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good, but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist or an authority, is very apt to kill what suits us to consider the more humane passion for pure and disinterested reading."
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"The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life."
Life
"Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities."
Time
"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be."
Thought
"As you make your bed, so you must lie in it."
Lie
"The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness."
Fame
"The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event."
Crime
"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing.""
Experience
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."
Knowledge
"We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place."
Reality
"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know."
Education
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