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Quotes about books - reading
The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. (Adams Dawn)
There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read. (Adams Dawn)
There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing. (Adams Dawn)
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down. (Adams Dawn)
This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. (Adams Dawn)
Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs. (Adams Dawn)
A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there -- that of the pulse, the heart beat. (Adams Dawn)
All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet -- if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content. (Adams Dawn)
Deep versed in books and shallow in himself. (Adams Dawn)
A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond. (Adams Dawn)
Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them. (Adams Dawn)
Books and marriage go ill together. (Adams Dawn)
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting. (Adams Dawn)
Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged. (Adams Dawn)
You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice. (Adams Dawn)
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired. (Adams Dawn)
The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it. (Adams Dawn)
A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations. (Adams Dawn)
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole. (Adams Dawn)
Read good, big important things. (Adams Dawn)
This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force. (Adams Dawn)
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. (Adams Dawn)
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. (Adams Dawn)
Five daily newspapers arrive in my California driveway. The New York times and the Wall Street Journal are supplemented by three local papers. As for magazines, I read, or at least skim, Business Week, Forbes, The Economist, INC; Industry Week, Fortune. Other subscriptions include Sales and Marketing Management, Modern Health Care, Progressive Grocer, High Tech Business, and Slaon Management Review from MIT. I religiously read Business Tokyo, Asia Week, and Far Eastern Economic Review. I glance at Newsweek and Time ... but I devour the New Republic, Policy Review, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Monthly, and Public Interest. How about books? A dozen or more each month. (Adams Dawn)
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget. (Adams Dawn)
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