Books - Reading Quotes

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  Robertson Davies: "A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight." # Books - Classics # Books - Reading # Age and Aging

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  Ralph Waldo Emerson: "There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world." # Literary Criticism # Books - Reading # Creativity

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  George Bernard Shaw: "Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads." # Censorship # Books - Reading # Logic

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  Mervyn Griffith-Jones: "Would you approve of your young sons, young daughters -- because girls can read as well as boys -- reading this book? Is it a book that you would have lying around in your own house? Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?" # Censorship # Books - Reading # Lies and Lying

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  Ralph Waldo Emerson: "A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite." # Taste # Books - Reading # Dress

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  Alan Bennett: "Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have." # Books - Classics # Books - Reading # Literature

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  Malcolm X: "My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity." # Libraries # Books - Reading # Writers and Writing

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  Alvin Kernan: "In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature." # Literature # Books - Reading # Knowledge

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  Jane Austen: "Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried. And what are you reading, Miss -- -? Oh! it is only a novel! replies the young lady; while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda ; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humor, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language." # Fiction # Books - Reading # Writers and Writing

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  Italo Calvino: "A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say." # Books - Classics

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