#read

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading. ↗

— Rufus Choate

#fortune #genuine #happy #held #his

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares. ↗

— John Clare

#anything #been #companions #drinking #easy

I just read that Time magazine cover story with all this information about how you have to have your kids by the time you're 12 or it's all over. Please. ↗

— Jill Clayburgh

#by the time #cover #how #i #information

Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#humanity #literature #reading #age

The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#atomic #atomic bombs #bombs #consequence #fact

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves. ↗

— Dogen

#discover #once #original #our #selves

The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly. ↗

— Dorothy Denning

#becomes #change #commonplace #communications #concern

I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully. ↗

— Jilly Cooper

#dreadfully #every #every time #family #go

Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#bad #bad stuff #game #impair #never

Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read. ↗

— Leo Burnett

#inviting #look #make #memorable #read