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A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored read more
I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.
Never judge a book by its movie.
Never judge a book by its movie.
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you read more
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over read more
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."
A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great read more
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.