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"That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before."
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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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"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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"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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"If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all."
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"And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end."
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"I am a machine condemned to devour books."
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"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
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"Read for the sake of using others knowledge to find your own inner guidance."
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"That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before."
Reading
"Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you."
Friendship
"I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes."
Want
"Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?"
Living
"Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master."
Society
"Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for."
Will
"For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo."
Control
"Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants."
Society
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