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 Satya Nadella
If you could understand impermanence deeply, you would develop more equanimity. You would not get too excited about either the ups and downs of life.
Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.
In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.
It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.
With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time.
