#boo

When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before. ↗

— Clifton Fadiman

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When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. ↗

— Clifton Paul Fadiman

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And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

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For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader. ↗

— Lee Child

#end #exciting #just #me #reader

I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#books #feel #i #i feel #less

I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy. ↗

— Adam Brody

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Textbooks are Soviet propaganda. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#soviet #textbooks

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

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