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"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."

~ Francis Bacon

"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."

~ Edmund Burke

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In honor of National Dog Day:

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."

~ Groucho Marx

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"A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to stick in your teeth like a piece of gristle."

~ Anatole Broyard

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"Without sufficient money for a meal I have spent the few pence I possessed to obtain from a library one of Scott's novels, and, reading it, forgot hunger and cold, and felt myself rich and happy."

~ Hans Christian Andersen

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"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."

~ Albert Einstein

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"A good reader is one who has imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic sense."

~ Vladimir Nabokov

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"Each in his own way imagines Paradise; since childhood I have envisioned it as a library."

~ Jorge Luis Borges

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"What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumb-sucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected."

~Margaret Atwood

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"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul."

~ Joyce Carol Oates

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"As a child I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them--I still do. I continue to do what I did as a child: dream of books, make books, and collect books."

~ Maurice Sendak

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"A library is thought in cold storage."

~ Herbert Samuel

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"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
~ Dr. Seuss

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"If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
~ Toni Morrison

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"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."

~ Frederick Douglass

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"Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words."

--Betty Smith ( A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1943)

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"We read to know we are not alone."
--C.S. Lewis

Quotation of the Week

"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."

--Elizabeth Hardwick