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Borrowers of
books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the
symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
-- Charles Lamb
1775-1834, British Essayist,
Critic
What is
reading, but silent conversation.
-- Walter Savage Landor
1775-1864, British Poet,
Essayist
After all, the
world is not a stage -- not to me: nor a theatre: nor a
show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not
little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches...
and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what
you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and
superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And
that's what my books are not and never will be. Whoever
reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he
doesn't like it -- if he wants a safe seat in the audience
-- let him read someone else.
-- D. H. Lawrence
1885-1930, British Author
I can't bear
art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be
either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
-- D. H. Lawrence
1885-1930, British Author
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One sheds
one's sicknesses in books -- repeats and presents again
one's emotions, to be master of them.
-- D. H. Lawrence
1885-1930, British Author
The classics
are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class
as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive
medicine.
-- Stephen B. Leacock
1869-1944, Canadian Humorist,
Economist
Until I feared
I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love
breathing.
-- Harper Lee
1926-, American Author
You've really
got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out
here.
-- Spike Lee
1956-, American Film director
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