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Quotes about books - reading
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. (Adams Dawn)
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure. (Adams Dawn)
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. (Adams Dawn)
A wicked book cannot repent. (Adams Dawn)
The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell. (Adams Dawn)
There is no robber worse than a bad book. (Adams Dawn)
This book fills a much-needed gap. (Adams Dawn)
She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion. (Adams Dawn)
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. (Adams Dawn)
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought. (Adams Dawn)
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library. (Adams Dawn)
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. (Adams Dawn)
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery. (Adams Dawn)
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable. (Adams Dawn)
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. (Adams Dawn)
The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it --when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared. (Adams Dawn)
A book worth reading is worth buying. (Adams Dawn)
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement. (Adams Dawn)
Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours. (Adams Dawn)
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time. (Adams Dawn)
How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? (Adams Dawn)
To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions. (Adams Dawn)
A library is thought in cold storage. (Adams Dawn)
Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, Lighthouses as the poet said erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print. (Adams Dawn)
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them. (Adams Dawn)
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