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Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an eclectic reading list.

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What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

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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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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 believe in open government. I've always believed in open government. I don't e-mail, however. And there's a reason: I don't want you reading my personal stuff.

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Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

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People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

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The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.

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I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.

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Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.

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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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Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

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We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

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You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when you are in a state of contradiction, when you do not want to learn but are forced to learn, then it becomes merely a process of accumulation. To learn is like reading a novel with innumerable characters; it requires your full attention, not contradictory attention.

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The heart is the only book worth reading.

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Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

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It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

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Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

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