December 2011
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There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops,...
– Doris Lessing
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In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get...
– Mortimer J. Adler
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You know what I can’t understand? You have all these people telling you all the...
– David Nicholls
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Maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love,...
– John Green
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You’re beautiful, but you’re empty. No one could die for you.
– The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how...
– William Faulkner
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Most people’s major life regrets are not about the things they’ve done, but...
– The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, Thom Hartmann
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The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who...
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited
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Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page...
– Cornelia Funke
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the...
– C. S. Lewis
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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us...
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never seen.
– John Steinbeck, East Of Eden
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You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the...
– Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
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I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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