Some quotes I like:
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"The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you the knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination." - Elizabeth Hardwick , US writer (1916 - )
"Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered." W. H. Auden - US (English-born) critic & poet (1907 - 1973)
"The surest way to spot a non-reader: someone who comes into your house, looks at your books, and asks, 'Have you read all these?'" - Nick Hornby, English writer (1957 - )
"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. " - Paul Valery - French critic & poet (1871 - 1945)
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." - Groucho Marx - US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 - 1977)
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention." - Sir Francis Bacon - English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626)
“If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it” - Toni Morrison - American Writer, Teacher and Editor. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved; won Nobel Prize for Literature, 1993, b.1931. (1931 - )
“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.” - William Styron - American Writer and Novelist - Confessions of Nat Turner b.1925.(1925-2006)
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