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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy. (Adams Dawn)
A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies. (Adams Dawn)
I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book. (Adams Dawn)
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most. (Adams Dawn)
You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff. (Adams Dawn)
The successful Accelerated Reader is able to read larger than normal blocks or bites of the printed page with each eye stop. He has accepted, without reservation, the philosophy that the most important benefit of reading is the gaining of information, ideas, mental picture and entertainment-not the fretting over words. He has come to the realization that words in and of themselves are for the most part insignificant. (Adams Dawn)
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. (Adams Dawn)
Next, in importance to books are their titles. (Adams Dawn)
If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you. This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors and I-Married-a-Midget writers who would not have the patience to learn the secret language. (Adams Dawn)
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions. (Adams Dawn)
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use. (Adams Dawn)
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries. (Adams Dawn)
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. (Adams Dawn)
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. (Adams Dawn)
He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust. (Adams Dawn)
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life. (Adams Dawn)
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. (Adams Dawn)
Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing. (Adams Dawn)
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. (Adams Dawn)
You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable. (Adams Dawn)
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader. (Adams Dawn)
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb. (Adams Dawn)
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living. (Adams Dawn)
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. (Adams Dawn)
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. (Adams Dawn)
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