To
feel most beautifully alive means to be reading
something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in
the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
-- Gaston Bachelard
1884-1962, French
Scientist, Philosopher, Literary Theorist
Read
not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and
take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse;
but to weigh and consider.
-- Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British
Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Some
books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and
some few to be chewed and digested.
-- Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British
Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow
testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider
reality of the library.
-- Nicholson Baker
1957-, American
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