“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.” — Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection (1989)
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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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“My dream was that someday a sensitive stranger from the other school would come in, see what I was reading and how I was reading it, and know that I was a rare and extraordinary person.” — Sarah Chihaya, “Public Affairs,” The Point (2020-05-29)
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“Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.” — Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea
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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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“What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.” — Alice James, Her Brothers — Her Journal
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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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“Reading certain novels is a little like looking through the keyhole to learn what the neighbor is doing and thinking—does he have the same inferiority complex, the same vices, the same temptations?” — Georges Simenon, The Art of Fiction No. 9, The Paris Review, Issue 9, Summer 1955
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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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