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

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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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if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

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An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.

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Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.

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It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too." Are you, Joe?" Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!" he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!

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

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

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Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

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Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.

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What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness my father was in Porbandar. There every evening he used to listen to the Ramayana.

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You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

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Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.

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It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

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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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When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.

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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

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We read often with as much talent as we write.

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