Virginia Woolf Quotes, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly.

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The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the other is diffuse strength; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other's duties.

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You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

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

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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

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People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

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I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

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Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.

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The mind must be developed by you alone. There is no way for others to do the work and for you to reap the results. Reading someone else's blueprint of mental progress will not transfer its realizations to you. You have to develop them yourself.

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If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

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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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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

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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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he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

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Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.

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If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid

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We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

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I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

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