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To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends.I’d never be satisfied to limit myself to just one experience each with...more

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It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

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I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in...more

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In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault.

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The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes are not enough for me, I will see through those of o...more

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The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reas...more

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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring tw...more

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For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, so dear to publishers, has only a very sketchy rela...more

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We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century - the blindness about which posterity will ask, "But how could they have tho...more

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The truly wide taste in reading is that which enables a man to find something for his needs on the sixpenny tray outside any secondhand bookshop.

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Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

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And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magici...more

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The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was locatedwill betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them,and...more

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I was with book, as a woman is with child.

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Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.