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George R.R. Martin _ A Dance with Dragons
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
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Audrey Niffenegger _ The Night Bookmobile
When I began writing The Night Bookmobile, it was a story about a woman's secret life as a reader. As I worked it also became a story about the claims that books place on their readers, the imbalance between our inner and outer lives, a cautionary tale of the seductions of the written word. It became a vision of the afterlife as a library, of heaven as a funky old camper filled with everything you've ever read. What is this heaven? What is it we desire from the hours, weeks, lifetimes we devote to books? What would you sacrifice to sit in that comfy chair with perfect light for an afternoon in eternity, reading the perfect book, forever?
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Karen Armstrong _ A Short History of Myth / The
...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest.
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Libba Bray _ Rebel Angels
And now if you'll excuse me, I should like to finish my book, alone, without the presence of a single ringleted girl to disrupt me. If you should come for me at dinner and find me in my chair, gone to the angels at last, you shall know that I died alone, which is to say in a state of utter bliss.
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E.M. Forster _ Aspects of the Novel
Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.
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Ray Bradbury _ A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit
You should've thought of that before becoming a fireman.""Thought!" he said. "Was I given a choice? I was raised to think the best thing in the world to read. The best thing is television and radio and ball games and a home I can't afford and, Good Lord, now, only now I realize what I've done. My grandfather and father were firemen. Walking in my sleep I followed them.
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ The Marriage Plot
She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.
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Henry Miller _ The Books in My Life
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.
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George R.R. Martin _ A Dance with Dragons
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one."
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Mark Helprin _ Freddy and Fredericka
I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you... and the happier you are and more comforted you feel. It's up to you. No you is educated who cannot educate himself.
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Mark Helprin _ Freddy and Fredericka
Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you always generate enough to illuminate the next step.
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Anne Fadiman _ Ex Libris: Confessions of a
I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.
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