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Ray Bradbury2 quotes
I discovered me in the library. — Ray Bradbury · 2010You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. — Ray Bradbury · 1993Aleister Crowley1 quote
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. — Aleister Crowley · 1929Benjamin Franklin1 quote
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. — Benjamin Franklin · 1790Francis Bacon1 quote
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. — Francis Bacon · 1625Jane Austen1 quote
There is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — Jane Austen · 1813John Ruskin1 quote
Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours. — John Ruskin · 1864Lex Luthor1 quote
Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe. — Lex Luthor · 1978Logan Pearsall Smith1 quote
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. — Logan Pearsall Smith · 1931Marcel Proust1 quote
Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth. — Marcel Proust · 1922Samuel Johnson1 quote
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good. — Samuel Johnson · 1763Tao Yuanming1 quote
I have done my plowing:
I have sown my seed.
Again I have time to sit and read my books. — Tao Yuanming · 427Tyrion Lannister1 quote
A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone. — Tyrion Lannister · 2011Yoshida Kenko1 quote
The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known. — Yoshida Kenko · 1332