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It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.

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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.

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If a script has that affect on me during a reading, then it is definitely a film I want to be part of.

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We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

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The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the other is diffuse strength; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other's duties.

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Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore.

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I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

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Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.

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People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my readers and interact with my readers. It is a way that they can voice their opinion.

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I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

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A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

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People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my readers and interact with my readers. It is a way that they can voice their opinion.

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Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

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I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.

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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

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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.

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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

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Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an eclectic reading list.

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