A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
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David Mitchell
If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open,...
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Italo Calvino
We shouldn't teach great books we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.
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B.F. Skinner
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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Gustave Flaubert
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
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Logan Pearsall Smith
More Quotes By Rudy Francisco
My biggest fear is forgetting why I fell in love with writing. My biggest dream is never allowing that to happen.
Instead of asking why they left, now I ask, what beauty will I createin the space the no longeroccupy?
Failure is when you talk yourself out of becoming something amazing.
Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?
You want to know how I got these scars? I ripped every last piece of you out of my smile.
