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Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Stichwörter: libraries reading books freedom censorship thought

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Ezra Pound

Stichwörter: reading books knowledge

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

Joseph Joubert

Stichwörter: reading books

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Henry Ward Beecher

Stichwörter: humor books

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Ruth Rendell

Stichwörter: life reading books escapism

...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.

Louisa May Alcott

Stichwörter: books romance

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

J.D. Salinger

Stichwörter: reading books writing literature authors

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

Ray Bradbury

Stichwörter: books universe magic