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If we
encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what
books he reads.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
Books are the
best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst.
They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never
see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my
own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
Some books
leave us free and some books make us free.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
When I get a
little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and
clothes.
-- Desiderius Erasmus
c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist
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When you
reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you
did before; you see more in you than there was before.
-- Cliff Fadiman
American Writer
The tools I
need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little
whiskey.
-- William Faulkner
1897-1962, American Novelist
Read, read,
read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and
see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an
apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not,
throw it out the window.
-- William Faulkner
1897-1962, American Novelist
If the riches
of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe,
were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I
would spurn them all.
-- Francois FéNelon
1651-1715, French Writer
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