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For a good
book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction
of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like
Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid
life of its own.
-- Caroline Lejeune
1897-1973, British Film
Critic
I feel like
I'm drowning. Every night, I'm carrying home loads of things
to read but I'm too exhausted. I keep clipping things and
Xeroxing them and planning to read them eventually, but I
just end up throwing it all away and feeling guilty.
-- Ghita Levine
A book is a
mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle
to look out.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist,
Satirist
A vacuum of
ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air,
otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist,
Satirist
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Do we write
books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write
them for employment in the household? For one that is read
from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other
thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against
mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on,
drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to
light pipes.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist,
Satirist
There are very
many people who read simply to prevent themselves from
thinking.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist,
Satirist
The things I
want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll
get me a book I ain't read.
-- Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth
President of the USA
Reading
furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is
thinking that makes what we read ours.
-- John Locke
1632-1704, British
Philosopher
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