Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged, adapted, adulterated, shredded, and boiled down, it is mind-easing and mind-inspiring to sit down privately with a congenial book.

Thomas S. Monson

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Life happened because I turned the pages.

Alberto Manguel

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I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.

Scott Corbett

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The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop.

Alfred Hitchcock

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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own."

[The Sick Chamber (The New Monthly Magazine , August 1830)]

William Hazlitt

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I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.

Sarah Orne Jewett

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I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.

Katherine Hannigan

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The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

Benjamin Franklin

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I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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