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“If I encounter difficulties in reading, I do not gnaw my nails over them; I leave them there. I do nothing without gaiety.”

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“Denkst du nicht auch, dass man von Zeit zu Zeit Geschichten lesen sollte, in denen alles etwas anders ist als in unserer Welt? Nichts lehrt einen besser zu fragen, warum die Bäume grün und nicht rot sind und warum man nur fünf und nicht sechs Finger hat.”

Book:Inkdeath

Source: Inkdeath

“We both know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling out of a story and suddenly finding yourself in this world doesn't seem to be much fun at all.”

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Book:Inkheart

Source: Inkheart

“When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, reading as if for life.”

Book:David Copperfield

Source: David Copperfield

“I realize that people still read books now and some people actually love them, but in 1946 in the Village our feelings about books--I’m talking about my friends and myself--went beyond love. It was as if we didn’t know where we ended and books began. Books were our weather, our environment, our clothing. We didn’t simply read books; we became them. We took them into ourselves and made them into our histories. While it would be easy to say that we escaped into books, it might be truer to say that books escaped into us. Books were to us what drugs were to young men in the sixties. They showed us what was possible. We had been living with whatever was close at hand, whatever was given, and books took us great distances. We had known only domestic emotions and they showed us what happens to emotions when they are homeless. Books gave us balance--the young are so unbalanced that anything can make them fall. Books steadied us; it was as if we carried a heavy bag of them in each hand and they kept us level. They gave us gravity.”

Reading Literature Books Words

Book:Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir

Source: Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir

“He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did,and as was the case with all addicts,gratification was the important thing.”

Reading Addiction Gratification Narcopolis

Book:Narcopolis

Source: Narcopolis

“I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep”

Reading Sleeping Staying Up

Book:Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

Source: Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

“But I can't translate it the right way, that's why I always use so many languages around you, because there're some things that simply can't translate, that are beautiful when you read them the original way.”

Reading Languages Darknessandlight

Book:I Sold Myself To The Devil For Vinyls... Pitiful I Know

Source: I Sold Myself To The Devil For Vinyls... Pitiful I Know

“Fuck you and your sick games! Why are you here?" "Where would you like me to be?" He lifts the corner of his mouth before showing off his white teeth. His sharp fangs. "Inside a coffin.”

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Book:Bewitched

Source: Bewitched

“Oh, Sweetie. No one ever gets through their TBR list. For every book you finish, you'll add five more. That's just the way it works.”

Book:Wicked Heart

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“As historical texts become rich and conceptually dense, readers may slow down not because they fail to comprehend, but because the very act of comprehension demands that they stop to TALK with their texts. In plain English, they pretend to deliberate with others by talking to themselves.”

Reading Contemplation Cognition

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