#reading

I don’t have the heart to tell my sons that the older one gets, the less funny literature becomes—and they would refuse to believe me if I tried to explain that some people don’t think jokes even belong in proper books. I won’t bother breaking the news that, if they remain readers, they will insist on depressing themselves for about a decade of their lives, in a concerted search of gravitas through literature. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#funny

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books. ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#reading #humor

Perhaps,' I wearily suggest, 'reading is the opiate of the educated classes.' 'Is it? Are you thinking of becoming a flower child?' he says, lighting up a new cigar. ↗

— Philip Roth

#education

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it. ↗

— Alexander Theroux

#humor #humour #literature #reading #vocabulary

قراءة الكتب الجيدة .. تفسد استمتاعك بالكتب الرديئة ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#reading #humor

they should let some people into the library by prescription only ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#library #reading #humor

I remember that story. You have read it four times." Samson shrugged. "Why should I stop with the first reading? Nobody says, 'That was a fine piece of music. I'll never listen to that again." But some people treat books that way. Not I! ↗

— Karen A. Wyle

#funny #humor #reading #funny

Read a different Africa. Love a vibrant Africa. ↗

— Kiru Taye

#reading #love

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read ↗

— Harper Lee

#love

The best protection against propaganda of any sort is the recognition of it for what it is. Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business. Propaganda taken in that way is like a drug you do not know you are swallowing. The effect is mysterious; you do not know afterwards why you feel or think the way you do. ↗

— Mortimer J. Adler

#propaganda #reading #thinking #business