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“No matter how quickly he reads, he will not be better off if, as is too often true, he does not know what he is looking for and does not know when he has found it.”

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Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren

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“Sometimes, when I am reading, the way a person has phrased his truth is as important to me as the truth itself. The wording is like a powerful painting that I would like to put on the wall. I want to share the statement with other people, not just for its truth, but also because the way it is worded somehow has a special meaning for me.”

Truth Reading Meaning

Author:Robert Bolton

“Like the words were birds and while they were printed in the book those birds were stuck, caged. It was only when he read them that they flew.”

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Book:We Were Wolves

Source: We Were Wolves

“I have never asked a bookseller for a book recommendation. Disclosing desires and expectations to a stranger whose only connection to me is, in abstract, the book, seems too much like Catholic confession, if only a more intellectualized version of it.”

Reading Books Confession

Book:Lost Children Archive

Source: Lost Children Archive

“They say we should dance like no one is watching. I think that applies to reading too.”

Reading Healing Wintering

Book:Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

Source: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

“A library, no mater how humble or grand, is a series of sacred gateways. You pass through them and leave your own city behind; you journey through time and space; and for a little while, you escape the confines of your own circumstances. Each of us who are readers gets to live through a multiplicity of eras; we get to tiptoe through, to borrow Jorge Luis Borge’s phrase, ‘a growing, dizzying net of divergent, convergent, and parallel times.”

Reading Books Library Book Quotes Libraries

Book:Cloud Cuckoo Land

Source: Cloud Cuckoo Land

“She didn't remember the story, she was terrible with details, but she remembered the way it made her feel. It had this kind of warm, magical quality about it.”

Reading Memory Bookworm Favorite Books Book Nostalgia

Book:The Reading List

Source: The Reading List

“Once you agree to this you can never go back. Your life will change forever and not necessarily for the best,” Mr. Shine said, his thin hands clasped behind his back.”

Science Reading Literature Space Fiction Fantasy Adventure Intrigue Plots Different Dimensions

Book:The Lazarus Men

Source: The Lazarus Men

“Personally I have to exercise a lot of agency in reading, and understanding what I read, and bearing it all in mind for long enough to make sense of the book as I go along. In no sense does it feel like a passive process by which beauty is transmitted to me without my involvement; it feels like an active effort, which an experience of beauty is the constructed result. But, I think more importantly, great novels engage my sympathies and make me desire things.”

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Book:Beautiful World, Where Are You

Source: Beautiful World, Where Are You

“When the world roars in anger, let peace be your quiet answer.”

Quotes Peace Love Quotes Peaceful Peace Quotes Peace Activist Antiwar Quotes Antiwar Movement Harmony Quotesny Quotes

Author:Bhuwan Thapaliya

“I love ideas and stories. I always have at least one book going and am on the lookout for the next one. They feed the brain and fuel the imagination. I can’t imagine life without them.”

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Book:Keep Moving: And Other Truths About Living Well Longer

Source: Keep Moving: And Other Truths About Living Well Longer

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