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“My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.”

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Umberto Eco

Italian essayist, scholar, and critic. Umberto Eco is renowned for his unique literary style and profound academic background. His works integrate history, philosophy, literature, and semiotics, with his most famous novel being 'The Name of the Rose'. more

“Regarding R. H. Blyth: The first book in English based on the saijiki is R. H. Blyth's Haiku, published in four volumes from 1949 to 1952. After the first, background volume, the remaining three consist of a collection of Japanese haiku with translations, all organized by season, and within the seasons by traditional categories and about three hundred seasonal topics.”

Firsts Book Three Four Hundred Seasons Backgrounds Traditional Organized Collections Categories Volume Topics Translations Haiku

Author:Reginald Horace Blyth

“Napoleon: You have written this huge book on the system of the world without once mentioning the author of the universe. Laplace: Sire, I had no need of that hypothesis. Later when told by Napoleon about the incident, Lagrange commented: Ah, but that is a fine hypothesis. It explains so many things.”

World Needs Book Universe Written Huge Fine Hypothesis Incidents

Author:Pierre-Simon Laplace

“And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people's flowers, and that of my own I have only provided the string that ties them together.”

People Made Book Might Together My Own Flower Bunch Ties Strings

Book:The Essays

Source: The Essays

“A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.”

Thinking Book Matter Helping Remember Wish Causes Teach No Matter What Valuable Guides Make You Think

Author:Louis L'Amour

“He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.”

Doe Book Knowledge Ass Repeats Loaded

Author:Khalil Gibran

“A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.”

Knows Men Book Black Pleasure Reader Married Fairs Disposition Bachelors

Author:Joseph Addison

“There was this billy goat at a movie studio who found and ate a can of film. When a nanny asked him how he liked it, he said, "It was all right but I liked the book better."”

Said Book Film Found Studios Goats Nannies

Author:Johnny Carson

“Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.”

Book Shallow

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office

“Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.”

Book Study Purses

Book:John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition

Source: John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition

“My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.”

Two Book Home School Three Novel Five Week Reader Members Library Grades Grandmother Dimes Elementary School Balzac

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