Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

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The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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

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I'm good at reading people.

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Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.

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Reading history while you make history can teach you a lot.

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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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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

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Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.

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In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

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What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

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You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

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A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.

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There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist. ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.

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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

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

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In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.

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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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Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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