The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality.. Whole forests are ground into pulp to minister to our triviality
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Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible
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The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.
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Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
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For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.
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I can not live with out books.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.
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The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
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Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
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There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive
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Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.
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He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
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If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.
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The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.
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He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
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There are only two kinds of Wodehouse readers, those who adore him and those who have never read him.
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[Readers] who like facts will be better off with a straight history that spares them all the forelock tugging and teacup tinkling.
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Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding.
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I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.
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Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.
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Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
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Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own
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