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Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

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You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

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Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment.

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Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

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Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

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I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

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After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.

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People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.

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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

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There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

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Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated, shredded, and boiled down, it is mind-easing and mind-inspiring to sit down privately with a congenial book.

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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

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He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

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To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

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if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

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When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.

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Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

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He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.

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It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

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The truth is we're all probably more creative than we realize, except we spend our lives watching TV or reading somebody else's book. We never pick up a brush and stand in front of our own easel.

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