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A bibliophile
of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip
from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as
birds, high as prices.
-- Pablo Neruda
1904-1973, Chilean Poet
Early in the
morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of
one's strength, to read a book --I call that vicious!
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher
The worst
readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they
take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the
remainder, and revile the whole.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher
Read good, big
important things.
-- Peggy Noonan
1950-, American Author,
Presidential Speechwriter
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The books one
reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good
bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the
world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can
retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and
which in some cases can survive a visit to the real
countries which they are supposed to represent.
-- George Orwell
1903-1950, British Author,
''Animal Farm''
This book is
not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great
force.
-- Dorothy Parker
1893-1967, American Humorous
Writer
The books that
help you most are those which make you think that most. The
hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great
book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought,
deep freighted with truth and beauty.
-- Theodore Parker
1810-1860, American Minister
The last thing
one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
-- Blaise Pascal
1623-1662, French Scientist,
Religious Philosopher
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