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Reading: one of life's bare essentials

Written By venus on Monday, January 27, 2014 | 11:07 PM

Nick Steele by Tony Duran


If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.
~ Francois Mauriac


"Classic"--a book which people praise but don't read.
~ Mark Twain


The covers of this book are too far apart.
~ Ambrose Bierce


Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a reprint.
~ Mark Twain


I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in 20 minutes. It involves Russia.
~ Woody Allen


One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.
~ President George W. Bush

Yiannis


From the moment I picked up your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it.
~ Groucho Marx


It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.
~ Paulo Coelho


Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are unprankable. They'll track you down. They have skills!
~ Charles Ogden




Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.
~ John Green, Paper Towns



Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
~ Henry Ward Beecher



I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The Library, and step on it!"
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest


The problem with a life spent reading is you know too much.
Josh Lanyon, The Dickens With Love

 

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em.
~ John Waters


Photo by M Marshall Studios



Sections in the Bookstore
By Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler


  • Books You Haven't Read
  • Books You Needn't Read
  • Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading
  • Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written
  • Books That If You had More Time Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered
  • Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First
  • Books Too Expensive Now and You'll Wait 'Til They're Remaindered
  • Books--Ditto--When They Come Out in Paperback
  • Books You Can Borrow From Somebody
  • Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too
  • Books You've Been Planning to Read for Ages
  • Books You've Been Hunting for Years Without Success
  • Books Dealing With Something You're Working on at the Moment
  • Books You Want to Own So They'll Be Handy Just in Case
  • Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer
  • Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves
  • Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity. Not Easily Justified
  • Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time to Reread
  • Books You've Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It's Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them


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