It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.
Alex FlinnTag: friendship reading books loneliness alex-flinn beastly
I'm recapitulating...condensing...it's the Readers Digest style...people only have time to read thirty pages...apparently!...maximum!...that's all they have time for! they horse around for sixteen hours out of twenty-four, they sleep, they copulate the rest, where would they find the time to read a hundred pages? oh, do caca, I forgot! as well!
Louis-Ferdinand CélineTo lead by example is to offer your life as a living diarry for others to read. Never make your life pages blank; make some marks there. Many people are reading you.
Israelmore AyivorTag: reading books read book leadership leader lead teach example leaders pages page blank-paper examples blank conductor live-life-so-well diarry invigilator live-a-good-life supervisor
Never stop dreaming or reading.
A.B. ShepherdTag: life reading inspiration dreams hope life-and-living
Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment and because books were scarce and difficult to reproduce...As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.
Aldous HuxleyRead not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
Francis BaconTag: reading reflection consideration purpose-of
He had gone again and, emboldened by his first successful trip, had chosen a different sort of world to enter, that of THE MONK. He had studied the book with great care and finally selected a passage that was purely descriptive.
The result was the same. The instant he closed the top of the showcase, he was transported to the world described in the open pages. He found himself standing - and shivering - in a dank corridor that, he knew, was far underground. Feeble candlelight flickered in the distance, off to his left. Water dripped down the gleaming walls and startled rats scurried past his feet. The air was stale and unpleasant. Down the corridor to his left, he could hear singing but could not make out the words. Then suddenly, from his right, he heard a woman's high-pitched scream, its sound caroming off the wet, stone walls of the passageway. He jumped, his skin crawling at the back of his neck.
And found himself back in his warm and familiar room.
("I Shall Not Leave England Now")
Tag: reading fiction gothic matthew-gregory-lewis the-monk
I see something of a comrade in you. You like a book. Silent revelation on a page pleases you better than a self-bolstering display of verbal spillage. What do you see in me?
Clare BoylanWhen was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web.
Jodi PicoultReal literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.
Russell KirkTag: reading literature human-being what-should-children-read
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