What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though. J. D. Salinger
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  3. 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. - B.F. Skinner
  4. Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. - Gustave Flaubert
  5. People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. - Logan Pearsall Smith
More Quotes By J. D. Salinger
  1. A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.
  2. I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
  3. I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
  4. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
  5. You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
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