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Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.: Paxton Hood
Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.: Ralph Novak
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality, 1876
Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), An Apology for Idlers, 1874
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.: Robertson Davies
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.: Robertson Davies, "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks"
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.: Salman Rushdie (1947 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
I read part of it all the way through.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.: Sir Arthur Helps
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.: Sir Richard Steele
Live always in the best company when you read.: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.: Upton Sinclair (1878 - 1968), on his novel, "The Jungle" (1906)
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.: W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.: William Goldman, The Princess Bride
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

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