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“Life is limited, but by writing, and reading, we can live in different worlds, get inside the skins and minds of other people, and, in this way, push out the boundaries of our own lifes.”

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“She scoured the Earth, wandering and ravenous, looking for doors. And she found them. She found them in abandoned churches and the salt-rimed walls of caves, in graveyards and behind fluttering curtains in foreign markets. She found so many her imagining of the world grew lacy and tattered with holes, like a mouse-chewed map.”

Reading Doors Discoveries

Book:The Ten Thousand Doors of January

Source: The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“With me, travelling is frankly a vice. The temptation to indulge in it is one which I find almost as hard to resist as the temptation to read promiscuously, omnivorously and without purpose. From time to time, it is true, I make a desperate resolution to mend my ways. I sketch out programmes of useful, serious reading; I try to turn my rambling voyages into systematic tours through the history of art and civilization. But without much success. After a little I relapse into my old bad ways. Deplorable weakness! I try to comfort myself with the hope that even my vices may be of some profit to me.”

Reading Traveling

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Anyone who reads, even one from the remote Southwest at the far end of an attenuated tradition, is to some extent a citizen of the world, and I had been a hungry reader all my life.”

Reading Reading Motivation

Book:Crossing to Safety

Source: Crossing to Safety

“Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald?" "Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men.”

Reading Authors Hemingway Fitzgerald Faulkner John Grisham Camino Island Old Dead White Men

Book:Camino Island

Source: Camino Island

“ابدأ بقراءة أفضل الكتب، وإلا لن تجد الفرصة لقراءتهم أبداً”

Reading Advice

Author:Henry David Thoreau

“Louis said, "There ought to be a comic book about geeks." Dr. McNaughton said, "There are books about geeks." He said, "There are?" Dr. McNaughton said, "I'll read you some Faulkner sometime. I'll read you some Eudora Welty, some Flannery O'Connor. Geeks, midgets, anything your heart desires. Better than comic books." Louis looked at his father. He said, "You'll read to me? Really?”

Reading Mississippi

Book:The Sharpshooter Blues

Source: The Sharpshooter Blues

“We were all serious readers, sitting on wooden chairs at rows of lecterns, turning the pages, united in mutual love of isolation.”

Reading Library Libraries Readers

Book:The Whispering Swarm

Source: The Whispering Swarm

“Reread your favorite novel, the one you only let yourself read any more when you’re sick in bed.”

Reading Illness

Author:Robin McKinley

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