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"What really knocks me out is a volume that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and y'all could phone call him up on the phone whenever you felt like information technology. That doesn't happen much, though." ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"But the very weak-minded refuse to exist influenced by literature and verse." ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Affections
"Music expresses that which cannot exist put into words and that which cannot remain silent" ― Victor hugo
"That is part of the beauty of all literature. Y'all discover that your longings are universal longings, that y'all're not solitary and isolated from anyone. You belong." ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one." ― Terry Pratchett
"Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned past the enemy, don't we consider information technology his duty to escape?. . .If nosotros value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our apparently duty to escape, and to have as many people with united states every bit we can!" ― J.R.R. Tolkien
"There is no surer foundation for a cute friendship than a mutual taste in literature." ― P.G. Wodehouse
"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say." ― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature
"She read books as one would exhale air, to fill up and live." ― Annie Dillard, The Living
"Have a eye that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts." ― Charles Dickens
"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity." ― G.One thousand. Chesterton
"Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own feather in its agony." "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free man, with an independent will; which I now exert to exit you." ― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre
"Write what you know. That should leave yous with a lot of complimentary time." ― Howard Nemerov
"Puns are the highest class of literature." ― Alfred Hitchcock
"It's not all bad. Heightened cocky-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me." ― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
"What an astonishing matter a volume is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and yous're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your caput, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, bounden together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of fourth dimension. A volume is proof that humans are capable of working magic."
[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Retentiveness (1980)]" ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
"From that fourth dimension on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be alone once again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and in that location was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. In that location would be honey stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one volume a day as long every bit she lived." ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
"That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out letters from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell united states about life and expiry! Heed to them!" ― Connie Willis, Passage
"And so Matilda's potent young mind connected to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the bounding main. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are non alone." ― Roald Dahl, Matilda
"Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language." ― Henry James
"There must have been moments fifty-fifty that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- non through her own mistake, simply considering of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to information technology all the time, decking it out with every vivid feather that drifted his manner. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart." ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Bang-up Gatsby
"He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words within his caput." ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
"I know every volume of mine by its scent, and I take but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things." ― George Gissing
"The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to astonishing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-24-hour interval sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her petty room in an English language village." ― Roald Dahl, Matilda
"Everybody does have a volume in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay." ― Christopher Hitchens
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