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No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.

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

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

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

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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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When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. (Reading this makes me wonder how much sooner man could have walked on the moon... had we listened to a child's fantasies. It is truly a pity that so many lose their gift of imagination to the steady hum of the status quo.)

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My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

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'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

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Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

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

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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

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I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.

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As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

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I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

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Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

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I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.

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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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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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