Quotes and sayings about tag  reading

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

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• Books

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

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• Books

With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

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• Happiness

Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in your real life.

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• Time

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

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• Books

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

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• Books

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

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• Knowledge

I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul.

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• Books

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

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• Books

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

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• Books

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

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• Books

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

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• Books

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.

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• Writing

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

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• Books

Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.

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• Happiness