Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Reading Quotes, Library Quotes

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.

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Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film. Some films can, but not too much.

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PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] "reading character" in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence is not altogether false. . . for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word "dupe."

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The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.

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When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by ourselves, we can still take pleasure in reading it to a companion. To him it has all the graces of novelty.

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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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I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.

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When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.

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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.

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All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

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Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?

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I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.

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For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.

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If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?

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What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness my father was in Porbandar. There every evening he used to listen to the Ramayana.

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We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations, their obligations as teachers. We want them to know how to teach the science of reading. In order to make sure there's not this kind of federal-federal cufflink.

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What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

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I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.

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Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

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A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

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