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 Wayde Goodall
Success is often followed by failure. Yesterday's victory doesn't win today's battle.
The enemy doesn't warn its target. Emergencies do not make appointments, and the greatest battles of life are often surprises.
The best defense is great offense.. .We fight through our mistakes and failures by maximizing our forward motion.
Only adversity provides the opportunity for greatness.
We are given talent but we choose to have character.
