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Miss a meal if
you have to, but don't miss a book.
-- Jim Rohn
American Businessman, Author,
Speaker, Philosopher
The book you
don't read won't help.
-- Jim Rohn
American Businessman, Author,
Speaker, Philosopher
Don't just
read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you
will never grow from it.
-- Jim Rohn
American Businessman, Author,
Speaker, Philosopher
The reason
that fiction is more interesting than any other form of
literature, to those who really like to study people, is
that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without
humiliating himself.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
1884-1962, American First
Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian
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Very young
children eat their books, literally devouring their
contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first
editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the
nursery.
-- A. S. W. Rosenbach
The books one
has written in the past have two surprises in store: one
couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
-- Jean Rostand
1894-1977, French Biologist,
Writer
Prerequisite
for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
-- Jean Rostand
1894-1977, French Biologist,
Writer
In the dark
colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity
for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness,
and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for
newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all
the words in all the books with covers closed.
-- Leo Rosten
1908-1997, Polish Born
American Political Scientist
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