Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826

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Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826
I cannot live without books.
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Samuel Goldwyn, 1882-1974
I read part of it all the way through.
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Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914?
The covers of this book are too far apart.
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George Eliot, 1819-80
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time
or rather we who read it are no longer the same
interpreters.
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Herbert Spencer, 1820-1903
Reading is seeing by proxy.
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Katherine Patterson
The gift of reading, like all natural gifts, must
be nourished or it will atrophy.
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Edmund Wilson, 1895-1972
No two persons ever read the same book.
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Malcolm X, 1925-65
I have often reflected upon the new vistas that
reading opened to me.  I knew right there in
prison that reading had changed forever the
course of my life. 
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bell hooks, 1952-
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me
through books.
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Horace Mann, 1796-1859
A room without books is like a room without
windows.
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Cicero, 106-43 B.C.
A room without books is like a body without a
soul.
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Coolio, 1963-
I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a
book.
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Emily Dickinson, 1830-86
There is no Frigate like a book To take us
Lands away, Nor any coursers like a Page Of
prancing Poetry.
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Ezra Pound, 1885-1972
Literature is news that STAYS news.
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Mary Ellen Chase, 1887-1973
There is no substitute for books in the life of a
child.
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Mark Twain, 1835-1910
A classic is a book everyone wants to have read
and nobody wants to read.
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Joseph Addison, 1672-1719
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the
body.
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Groucho Marx, 1890-1977
From the moment I picked up your book until I
laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter.
Someday I intend reading it.
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Aneurin Bevan, 1897-1960
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form
of continuous fiction.
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Harper Lee, 1926-
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to
read. One does not love breathing.
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Groucho Marx, 1890-1977
I must say that I find television very
educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I
go to the library and read a book.
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Montesquieu, 1689-1755
Ive never known any trouble that an hours
reading didnt assuage.
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Anna Quindlen, 1953-
I would be most content if my children grew up to
be the kind of people who think decorating
consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
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John Ruskin, 1819-1900
All books can be divided into two classes, the
books of the hour, and the books of all time.
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Dr. Seuss, 1904-91
The more that you read, the more things you will
know. The more that you learn, the more places
youll go.
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Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941
Fiction is like a spiders web, attached ever so
lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at
all four corners.
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Moses Hadas, 1900-1966
This book fills a much needed gap.
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Herbert Samuel, 1870-1963
A library is thought in cold storage.
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Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a
kind of library.
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Jean Fritz, 1915-
When I discovered libraries, it was like having
Christmas every day.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson,1803-82
Whats a book? Everything or nothing. The eye
that sees it is all.
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Erasmus, 1466-1536
When I get a little money, I buy books and if
any is left, I buy food and clothes.
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James Baldwin, 1924-87
It was books that taught me that the things that
tormented me were the very things that connected
me with all the people who were alive, or who
have ever been alive.
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Heinrich Heine, 1797-1856
Wherever they burn books, sooner or later they
will burn human beings as well.
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Joseph Brodsky, 1940-
There are worse crimes than burning books. One
of them is not reading them.
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Ray Bradbury, 1920-
You don't have to burn books to destroy a
culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 1689-1762
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any
pleasure so lasting.
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Walter Savage Landor, 1775-1864
What is reading but silent conversation?
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Groucho Marx, 1890-1977
Outside of a dog, a book is mans best friend.
Inside of a dog, its too dark to read.
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W. H. Auden, 1907-73
Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are
undeservedly remembered.
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Voltaire, 1694-1778
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
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Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917-2000
Read between the lines. Dont swallow everything.
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Lewis Carroll, 1832-98
What is the use of a book, thought Alice,
without pictures or conversations?
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Confucius, c. 551 - c. 479 B.C.
No matter how busy you may think you are, you
must find time for reading or surrender
yourself to ignorance.
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John Locke, 1632-1704
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of
knowledge it is thinking makes what we read ours.
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Amy Lowell, 1874-1925
All books are either dreams or swords.
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Montaigne, 1533-92
Every abridgement of a good book is a stupid
abridgement.
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Henry David Thoreau, 1817-62
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly
as they are written.
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Arthur, Lord Balfour, 1848-1930
He has only half learned the art of reading who
has not added to it the even more refined
accomplishments of skipping and skimming.
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Helen Keller, 1880-1968
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not
disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts
me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my
book friends. They talk to me without
embarrassment or awkwardness.
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Maya Angelou, 1928-
If I were a young person today, trying to gain a
sense of myself in the world, I would do that
again by reading, just as I did when I was young.
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Woody Allen, 1935-
I took a speed reading course and read War and
Peace in twenty minutes. Its about Russia.
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Sir Francis Bacon, 1561-1626
Some books are to be tasted, others to be
swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested
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