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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
People read books and they find a new world that can change their lives.
People read books and they find a new world that can change their lives.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
 But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, 
exempted from the wrong of time, and capable read more 
 But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, 
exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual 
renovation. 
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and read more
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands
Books are a finer world within the world.
Books are a finer world within the world.
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in read more
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.