Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.
Logan Pearsall SmithStichwörter: words reading books literature
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Charles BaudelaireStichwörter: reading books garden
It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.
Maureen CorriganStichwörter: reading books people
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Samuel JohnsonStichwörter: reading
Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.
Stéphane MallarméShe was a great and insatiable reader, surprisingly well acquainted with the classics of literature, and unexpectedly lavish in the purchase of books. Her neighbours never forgot to mention, in describing her, the awe-inspiring fact that she 'took in the English Times and the Saturday Review, and read every word of them,' but it was hinted that the bookshelves that her own capable hands had put up in her bedroom held a large proportion of works of fiction of a startlingly advanced kind, 'and,' it was generally added in tones of mystery, 'many of them French.
Edith Œnone SomervilleStichwörter: reading
The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.
Patricia DunckerWe love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.
[Inside Out (VH1)]
Stichwörter: reading books time passage-of-time
Reading is a solitary pursuit, even a lone passage to a separate world. Yet to read in public, amid strangers, gives it another dimension. Sometimes the city speaks to the page, or the page seems to open up to people passing by. An outdoor reader shares the pulse of a timeless urban conversation between the world and the written word.
Nina BernsteinStichwörter: reading
A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.
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