T. S. Eliot Quotes, Reading Quotes, Exercise Quotes

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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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

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I even love the smell of books.

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Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.

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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

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A man is known by the books he reads.

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Reading maketh a full man.

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

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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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Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my readers and interact with my readers. It is a way that they can voice their opinion.

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

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Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book they buy with it the right to abuse the author.

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Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

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Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

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T'is true: there's magic in the web of it.

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it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

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