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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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I am a part of everything that I have read.

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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

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The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.

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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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I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

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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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No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.

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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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Books are the mirrors of the soul.

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Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

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It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

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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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Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.

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

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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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Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

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There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

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Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

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Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

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