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Untitled 10 Jun 2013 | 10:47 pm
"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend." - Paul Sweeney
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"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as...
Untitled 10 Jun 2013 | 10:44 pm
"I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, - who yet live and speak excellently in their works. My neighbors think me often alone, - and yet at such times ...
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"There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a...
Untitled 10 Jun 2013 | 10:42 pm
"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining w...
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"A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and de...
Untitled 10 Jun 2013 | 10:40 pm
"There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. O...
Untitled 10 Jun 2013 | 10:34 pm
"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope...
Untitled 10 Jun 2013 | 10:33 pm
"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries." - Rene Descartes
Random Readings 41 3 Aug 2012 | 09:26 pm
And this morning I came in early, in this beautiful weather, and read the 17 pages and it is utterly beautiful and I sit here in shimmering happiness over such a lovely manuscript, and I should have b...
