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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
We get no good
By being ungenerous, even to a book,
And calculating profits--so much help
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We get no good
By being ungenerous, even to a book,
And calculating profits--so much help
By so much reading. It is rather when
We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge
Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound,
Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth--
'Tis then we get the right good from a book.
What is reading, but silent conversation.
What is reading, but silent conversation.
Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
