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“After that they browsed for a minute or two in a semi-detached fashion. Nick found a set of Trollope which had a relatively modest and approachable look among the rest, and took down The Way We Liv...”
“I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.”
“Wisdom, ambition, sadness, joy, malice, grief, amazement, all the emotions which blaze within the human soul may be recorded on a page. Nestled in a sheaf of paper sleeps an infinity beyond the lim...”
“I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep”
“I couldn't convince her that if I had a book with me, I wasn't lonely.”
“Reading," he says, "is always this: there is a thing that is there, a thing made of writing, a solid material object, which cannot be changed, and through this thing we measure ourselves against so...”
“...he had to comfort himself with the firm conviction that most of what he objected to in Mohawk and the world at large was not the result of people reading the wrong books, but rather of not readi...”
“The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.”
“...And if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.”
“Hurried reading can never be good reading”
“In the first place I spent most of my time at home, reading. I tried to stifle all that was continually seething within me by means of external impressions. And the only external means I had was re...”
“How would it be after the last sentence? The last sentence he had always feared and from the middle of a book, he had always been tormented by the thought that there would inevitably be a last sent...”
“. . .sometimes reading the same page over and over, until one sleepy afternoon something clicked, like a lock unlocking, and she saw those printed doors swing open on a vast house of words.”
“Find a quiet place, and just read. If youre reading an ebook, clear away everything else but your ebook reader.Then you settle into the reading, and enjoy it. Bask in the luxury of reading without ...”
“The rage for swiftness which is so characteristic of this restless time has been extended to fashions of reading. One effect of the modern habit of swift and careless reading is seen in the impatie...”
“I am ashamed to say this, but as a child, neither my parents not my teachers pushed me to read. In fact, I did not read an entire book through until I was a grown man and had learned the awesome po...”
“For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths”
“If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.”
“I don't know what's more tragic, knowing how to read and choosing not to, or not knowing how to read and refusing to learn.”
“So go ahead. Do itopen the book. See? You see me, right? And I see you. See? I am reading your face, your eyes, your lips. I know the sufferdust on your brow. I can see you reading and I can tell, ...”
