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“Every man of my age has had in his youth one blessing for which our juniors may well envy him: we grew up in a world of cheap and abundant books.”

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Book:Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

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Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

C.S. Lewis, the renowned author of 'The Chronicles of Narnia,' shares his intimate experiences and insights into the development of his spiritual beliefs and the profound joy he encountered on his path to faith. more

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“You have to read a book for some reason, and you're not that excited about it, but you're a good person, you're not going to say you read a book when you didn't. So you run your eyes over every single line. And yet, when you get to the end, much more quickly than you should've, you'd be hard-pressed to explain even the basics of the book. It has a main character, and that main character had a problem. Maybe? Things happened, and then the problem resolved. Probably...we didn't really read the book. We saw very page of the book.”

Books Forgetful

Book:Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out – A Hilarious Guide for Book Lovers and Lifelong Readers

Source: Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out – A Hilarious Guide for Book Lovers and Lifelong Readers

“The librarium — the sum total of what reading represents and does — is strong. Read with any consistency and you will be succored, you will be reconstituted and, if you hang tough enough, you will eventually be transformed. Without fucking fail.”

Reading Books Transformation Succor Reconstitution

Author:Junot Díaz

“Even humble comic books could not escape the new puritanism. In 1952, comics were removed from the on-board bookshops of the US Pacific Fleet, on the grounds that they were too violent and graphic for marines and sailors.”

Military Books Comics

Book:The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict

Source: The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict

“p. 364 Do you want to be the ones handing out the gasoline cans? Or the ones trying to put out the fire?”

Books Censorship Librarians

Book:The Librarian of Burned Books

Source: The Librarian of Burned Books

“Every lover could be brought to trial as the murderer of his own love. When something hurts you, saddens you, I rush to avoid it, to alter it, to feel as you do, but you turn away with a gesture of impatience and say: "I don't understand”

Books Book Quotes Anais Nin

Book:The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel

Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel

“I perceived quite early that I was a reader, and most of the people I came into contact with were not. It made a barrier. What they wanted to talk about were things they had eaten, touched, or done. What I wanted to talk about was what I had read.”

Reading Books Bibliophiles

Book:The Way the Future Was: A Memoir

Source: The Way the Future Was: A Memoir

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