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“Reading...is a full-contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources.”

Book:How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

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“My brother was one of the bigger influences in my life, in as much as he told me I didn't have to read the choice of books that I as recommended at school, and that I could go out to the library and go and choose my own, and sort of introduced me to authors that I wouldn't have read.probably. You know, the usual things like the Jack Kerouacs, the Ginsbergs, the ee Cummings and stuff.”

Reading Bowie

Author:David Bowie

“الشخص الذي لا يفارق بيئته التي نشأ فيها ولا يقرا غير الكتب التي تدعم معتقدات الموروثة، لا تنتظر منه ان يكون محايداً.”

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Book:وأنقذتنا الصفحات: حكايات من ونس الكتب

Source: وأنقذتنا الصفحات: حكايات من ونس الكتب

“Life was beautiful, everyone knew that, but it was also bitter and bleak and unfair as hell and where did that leave a person? On the outs with the rest of the world. Someone who sat alone in the cafeteria, reading, escaping from his hometown simply by turning the page.”

Life Reading

Book:Faithful

Source: Faithful

“Read. Everything you can get your hands on. Read until words become your friends. Them when you need to find one, they will jump into your mind, waving their hands for you to pick them. And you can select whichever you like, just like a captain choosing a stickball team.”

Reading Literacy

Author:Karen Witemeyer

“Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.”

Reading

Book:The Miserable Mill

Source: The Miserable Mill

“I'm never going to complain about receiving free early copies of books, because clearly there's nothing to complain about, but it does introduce a rogue element into one's otherwise carefully plotted reading schedule. ... Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarly deflected from your chosen path.”

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Book:The Polysyllabic Spree

Source: The Polysyllabic Spree

“We have all met a class of men, very remarkable for their activity, and who yet make but little headway in life; men who, in their noisy and impulsive pursuit of knowledge, never get beyond the outer bark of an idea, from a lack of patience and perseverance to dig to the core; men who begin everything and complete nothing; who see, but do not perceive; who read, but forget what they read, and are as if they had not read; who travel but go nowhere in particular, and have nothing of value to impart when they return.”

Reading

Book:Self-Made Men

Source: Self-Made Men

“مشروعك الأكبر في الحياه، هو ان تجد انت الحقيقي، انت الغائب بين عشرات الادوار التي تلعبها.”

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Book:وأنقذتنا الصفحات: حكايات من ونس الكتب

Source: وأنقذتنا الصفحات: حكايات من ونس الكتب

“It's not enough to know what all the words mean," he continued. "A good reader starts to see what an entire book is trying to say. And then a good reader will have something to say in return.”

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Book:I Kill the Mockingbird

Source: I Kill the Mockingbird

“She seemed to think reading was some sort of hobby, as opposed to being as necessary as breathing, sleeping, and eating.”

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Book:The FitzOsbornes at War

Source: The FitzOsbornes at War

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