#books

The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance and hope to be morally good, but it is not considered moral if the highest values of a society are adherence to rules and traditional mores, the maintenance of hierarchical relationships, and absolute ideas of right and wrong. Any society based on the latter will find novels inherently immoral and subversive. ↗

— Jane Smiley

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But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#books #education #learning #education

Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear. ↗

— Eric Burns

#education #education

The function of a book is to provide a reading experience. ↗

— Douglas Rushkoff

#books #reading #experience

In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world. ↗

— Alberto Manguel

#books #pages #secret #world #experience

On the best nights, he’d appear outside the bookstore window and wait for me to unlock the door. He usually hadn’t had time to shower between doing things with cattle and horses and coming to find me, and he looked older than us and stronger than us. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

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He ran his finger down the hardcover keyboard of book spines. Individual memories of each, particularly his first experience with every title, burned through him ↗

— Mike Robinson

#reading #experience

La falta de experiencia es inevitable, si leo a Joyce estoy sacrificando automáticamente otro libro y viceversa, etc. ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#experience #experience

I’d stumbled upon the inner sanctuary of a woman who loved the world. Loved the faces of people she saw. Loved the way a hand looked when it was relaxed. Loved the way a woman looked when she touched her own face. The way a man looked when he opened himself to her. Loved the way wind changed a tree or a field or a child’s hair. The beauty of a neck meeting a shoulder. The softness of a smile that wasn’t forced. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#artist #college-application #creativity #dating #glass-girl

The process of reading a book takes a while to get used to (in this future society). It's so slow and laborious. But once you get into it, once you forget the way you're reading and concentrate on what you're reading, it becomes a really unique experience. You have to work to draw meaning from it rather than having a meaning given to you. It doesn't tell you how to think. ↗

— Mike A. Lancaster

#experience