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Edmund Wilson

"No two persons ever read the same book."

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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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"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite."

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"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."

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"The world of books is heavenly paradise."

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"Read good books to improve your life."

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"We encounter great souls by reading great books."

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"There is no other enjoyment like reading."

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

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"Reading opens up other pockets of the mind."

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"Readers may be divided into four classes: I. Sponges, who absorb all they read, and return it nearly in the same state, only a little dirtied. II. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing, and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. III. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. IV. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also."

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