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Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name |
Jane Brody (1941-) |
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Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. |
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. |
The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality... Whole forests are ground into pulp to minister to our triviality |
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. |