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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

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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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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. The ...more

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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.

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When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, you...more

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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this ...more

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You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what is the common quality that makes yo...more

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Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have re...more

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It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of...more

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We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading.

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No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.