There is nothing political about American literature.
Laura BushTag: politics reading dumb literature american-literature
The greatest gift is the passion for reading.
It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,
it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.
It is a moral illumination.
Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.
William Ellery ChanningIn the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
Mortimer J. AdlerThis will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Elbert HubbardTag: reading books illiteracy american-politics
I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Woe be to him that reads but one book.
George HerbertI ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em, I ate 'em.
Ray BradburyTag: words reading books literature
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningTag: friendship friends reading books god religion companionship
We read in slow, long motions, as if drifting in space, weightless. We read full of prejudice, malignantly. We read generously, making excuses for the text, filling gaps, mending faults. And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder... as if a memory had suddenly been rescued from a place deep within us--the recognition of something we never knew was there...
Alberto ManguelTag: words reading books literature
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