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«The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.»
Author: Anatole Broyard | About: Reading | Keywords: slowly, spontaneous, valuable
«The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.»
Author: Anthony Trollope | About: Reading | Keywords: alloy, alloyed, enjoyment, fade, lasts, pleasures
«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.»
«The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.»
Author: Irving Howe (Critic, Educator) | About: Reading | Keywords: complaint
«The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one»
«The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works»
Author: James Joyce | About: Reading | Keywords: demand, devote, reader
«The less we know the more we suspect»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | About: Reading | Keywords: suspect
«The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.»
Author: Raymond Chandler (Writer) | About: Reading | Keywords: flood, gulp, gulping, savoring, The Flood
«The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own»
«The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer»
Author: Will Rogers | About: Law and lawyers, Reading | Keywords: drawn, lawyer

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