“It is far more easy to read books than men.” — Sir John Lubbock, “Tact,” The Use of Life
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“You’ll never know what sort of person you might have been if you’d read different stuff.” — Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport
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“A book can’t read itself to you. It doesn’t even know what it’s about.” — Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man
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“A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.” — David Mitchell, Number9Dream
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“Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress truth.” — Wole Soyinka, The Man Died
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“Books everywhere piled up in heaps, the rare companions of a solitude not self-imposed but sought.” — Lawrence Durrell, Bitter Lemons
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“When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have given to parents and grandparents, and of the hopes that I have had, all life weighed in the scales of my own life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.” — William Butler Yeats, Reveries over Childhood and Youth
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“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.” — William Styron, The Art of Fiction No. 5, The Paris Review
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“The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books.” — Robertson Davies, A Voice from the Attic
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“A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.” — Andrew Lang, The Library
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