~ Francis Bacon
"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
~ Edmund Burke
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By: Catherine Nichols,
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"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."
~ Francis Bacon
"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
~ Edmund Burke
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In honor of National Dog Day:
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
~ Groucho Marx
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"A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to stick in your teeth like a piece of gristle."
~ Anatole Broyard
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"Without sufficient money for a meal I have spent the few pence I possessed to obtain from a library one of Scott's novels, and, reading it, forgot hunger and cold, and felt myself rich and happy."
~ Hans Christian Andersen
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"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
~ Albert Einstein
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"A good reader is one who has imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic sense."
~ Vladimir Nabokov
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"Each in his own way imagines Paradise; since childhood I have envisioned it as a library."
~ Jorge Luis Borges
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"Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumb-sucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected."
~Margaret Atwood
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"As a child I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them--I still do. I continue to do what I did as a child: dream of books, make books, and collect books."
~ Maurice Sendak
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"A library is thought in cold storage."
~ Herbert Samuel
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~ Francis Bacon
"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
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"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
~ Groucho Marx
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~ Anatole Broyard
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~ Hans Christian Andersen
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~ Albert Einstein
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~ Vladimir Nabokov
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~ Jorge Luis Borges
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~Margaret Atwood
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~ Maurice Sendak
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~ Herbert Samuel
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"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
~ Dr. Seuss
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"If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
~ Toni Morrison
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"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."
--Frederick Douglass
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"Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words."
--Betty Smith ( A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1943)
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"We read to know we are not alone."
--C.S. Lewis
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"The greatest gift is a 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."
--Elizabeth Hardwick
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One of my all-time favorite quotes.
Yup, love this one!