A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
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David Mitchell
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many of the so-called romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop and think how many of them would cause serious and...
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Deb Caletti
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."" Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes,...
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Jane Austen
Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.
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E. Lockhart
More Quotes By Stephen Spender
Don't be afraid of poetry.
When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.
Reading to small children is a specialty.
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
