If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.
François Mauriac
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
John Green
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
Fran Lebowitz
Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.
George R.R. Martin
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke
We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
Jules Verne
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Malcolm X
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.
Orhan Pamuk
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Oscar Wilde
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.
Sylvia Plath
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
William Styron
Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.
Adolf Hitler
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