If a book is worth reading at all it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants designed to take your breath away when the brain and heart crave to linger in nobler enjoyme...
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it no excess of explanation and it is full of suggestions the raw material of possible poems and histories.
Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of a good book.
Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.
The delight of opening a new pursuit or a new course of reading imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
The dust and silence of the upper shelf.
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
The responsibility of a dictionary is to record a language not set its style.
To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.
What is reading but silent conversation?
'Sartor Resartus' is simply unreadable and for me that always sort of spoils a book.
You should read it though there is much that is skip-worthy.
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A (best-seller) is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively) for its well-knownness.
The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.
Reading after a certain (time) diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Literature is news that stays news.
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