"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."

Beauvoir, Simone De on change
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"Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?"

Woolf, Virginia on books - reading   

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."

Austin, Jane on books - reading
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"Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever."

Swartz, J. on books - reading
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"No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance."

Townsend, Atwood H. on books - reading
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"An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders."

Traherne, Thomas on books - reading   

"There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?"

Tsvetaeva, Marina on books - reading
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"Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time."

Whipple, Edwin P. on books - reading
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"Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested."

Bacon, Francis on books - reading
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"Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life."

Adler, Mortimer J. on books - reading
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"Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it."

Rohn, Jim on books - reading
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"Never judge a book by its movie."

Eagan, J. W. on books - reading
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"There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing."

Disraeli, Isaac on books - reading
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"Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote."

Chesterfield, Lord on books - reading
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"God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages."

Channing, William Ellery on books - reading
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"Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind."

Chambers, Robert on books - reading
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"Books succeed, and lives fail."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on books - reading
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"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."

Brodsky, Joseph on books - reading
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"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."

Bradbury, Ray on books - reading
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"A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators."

Bradbury, Malcolm on books - reading
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"The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency --the belief that the here and now is all there is."

Bloom, Allan on books - reading
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"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"

Beecher, Henry Ward on books - reading
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"The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers."

Barstow, Stan on books - reading
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"In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."

Adler, Mortimer J. on books - reading
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"Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered."

Auden, W. H. on books - reading
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"To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry."

Bachelard, Gaston on books - reading
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"Books are not men and yet they stay alive."

Benet, Stephen Vincent on books - reading
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"Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence."

Baudrillard, Jean on language
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"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]"

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language."

Bachelard, Gaston on language
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"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire."

Barthes, Roland on language
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"One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man."

Berger, John on language   

"I'm worried by all sorts of questions; please, answer them for me. "

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"To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do."

Aristotle on writers and writing
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"I think the issues of "identity" mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first. "

Berry, Wendell on identity   

"The world is whole beyond human knowing. "

Berry, Wendell on existence   

"How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite. "

Gilbert, Jack on language   

"I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere."

Congreve, William on secrets
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"Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time."

Lewis, C. S. on humankind
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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