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The real risks
for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits
of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of
what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go
to this edge and risk falling over it --when they endanger
the artist by reason of what he has, or has not,
artistically dared.
-- Salman Rushdie
1948-, Indian-born British
Author
A book is a
version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or
offer your own version in return.
-- Salman Rushdie
1948-, Indian-born British
Author
You should
read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by
advertisement.
-- John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic,
Social Theorist
A book worth
reading is worth buying.
-- John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic,
Social Theorist
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Be sure that
you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find
yours.
-- John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic,
Social Theorist
Books are
divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the
books of all time.
-- John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic,
Social Theorist
How long most
people would look at the best book before they would give
the price of a large turbot for it?
-- John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic,
Social Theorist
To use books
rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when
our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into
wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to
receive from them the united sentence of the judges and
councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable
opinions.
-- John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic,
Social Theorist
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