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“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”
P. J. O'Rourke
“I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.”
Stephen Wright
“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.”
Ursula K. LeGuin
“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
Albert Einstein
“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.”
John Locke
“The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works”
James Joyce
“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.”
Cesar Chavez
“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.”
William Styron
“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.”
Elizabeth Hardwick
