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 Isaac D'Israeli
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.
Beware of the man of one book.
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
