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MysteRy · « **Reply #45 on:** March 18, 2016, 02:00:38 PM »

[highlight-text]Master books but do not let them master you. Read to live not live to read.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

MysteRy · « **Reply #46 on:** March 18, 2016, 02:01:17 PM »

[highlight-text]A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.

Benjamin Disraeli

MysteRy · « **Reply #47 on:** March 18, 2016, 02:01:42 PM »

[highlight-text]The responsibility of a dictionary is to record a language not set its style.

Phillip Babcock Gove

MysteRy · « **Reply #48 on:** March 18, 2016, 02:02:12 PM »

[highlight-text]First publication is a pure carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

Hortense Calisher

MysteRy · « **Reply #49 on:** March 18, 2016, 02:02:40 PM »

[highlight-text]To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.

Robert Burchfield

MysteRy · « **Reply #50 on:** March 18, 2016, 02:03:07 PM »

[highlight-text]The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

Northrop Frye

MysteRy · « **Reply #51 on:** March 18, 2016, 02:03:33 PM »

[highlight-text]The fact of knowing how to read is nothing the whole point is knowing what to read.

Jacques Ellul

MysteRy · « **Reply #52 on:** March 18, 2016, 02:04:00 PM »

[highlight-text]Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of a good book.

Walter Sickert

MysteRy · « **Reply #53 on:** March 18, 2016, 02:04:26 PM »

[highlight-text]'Sartor Resartus' is simply unreadable and for me that always sort of spoils a book.

Harry S. Truman

MysteRy · « **Reply #54 on:** March 18, 2016, 02:04:50 PM »

[highlight-text]A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it you can't expect an apostle to look out.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

MysteRy · « **Reply #55 on:** March 18, 2016, 02:05:24 PM »

[highlight-text]A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.

Daniel J. Boorstin

MysteRy · « **Reply #56 on:** March 18, 2016, 02:05:50 PM »

[highlight-text]I do not know any reading more easy more fascinating more delightful than a catalogue.

Anatole France

MysteRy · « **Reply #57 on:** March 18, 2016, 02:06:14 PM »

[highlight-text]The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Mark Twain

MysteRy · « **Reply #58 on:** March 18, 2016, 02:06:41 PM »

[highlight-text]Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

John he Carri

MysteRy · « **Reply #59 on:** March 18, 2016, 02:07:01 PM »

[highlight-text]Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.

Francis Bacon

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