"It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything."

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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."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Read good books to improve your life."

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"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?"

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Easy reading is damn hard writing."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

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"If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?"

Alain de Botton, English Writer

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"For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance."

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"A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state."

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"Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production."

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"I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside."

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"How delightful to find a friend in everyone."

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"The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie."

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"After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life."

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"Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language."

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"Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse."

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