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Quote DB :: Reading Search in this category Sponsored Links Quote Author Rating Rate "Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature." T.S. Eliot "There is no friend as loyal as a book." Ernest Hemingway "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." Dorothy Parker "This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read." Winston Churchill "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." Mark Twain "There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book." Marcel Proust "A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read." Mark Twain "A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and for ever." Martin Farquhar Tupper "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 learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark." Victor Hugo "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." Benjamin Franklin "Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself." Marcel Proust "More than half modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read." Oscar Wilde "A room without books is like a body without a soul." GK Chesterton "But what is the difference between literature and journalism? Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all." Oscar Wilde "Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting." Edmund Burke "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." Thomas Jefferson "Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae." Kurt Vonnegut "When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life." Christopher Morley "Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man." Francis Bacon 1 2 Next >> Browse Reading quotes by Author: Abraham Lincoln Ambrose Bierce Benjamin Franklin Charles Caleb Colton Christopher Morley Dorothy Parker Edmund Burke Elbert Hubbard Ernest Hemingway Francis Bacon GK Chesterton Kurt Vonnegut Marcel Proust Mark Twain Martin Farquhar Tupper Michael Votto Oliver Wendell Holmes Oscar Wilde Robert Frost Robertson Davies Thomas Jefferson T.S. Eliot Victor Hugo Winston Churchill

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