"Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread. |
[Readers] who like facts will be better off with a straight history that spares them all the forelock tugging and teacup tinkling. |
[Readers] who like facts will be better off with a straight history that spares them all the forelock tugging and teacup tinkling. |
A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul. |
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. |
A good word is like a good tree whose root is firmly fixed and whose top is in the sky. |
A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints |
A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints |
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Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated. |
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