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When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, you...more

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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this ...more

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You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what is the common quality that makes yo...more

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Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have re...more

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It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of...more

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No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

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Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I ...more

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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

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A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

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Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need th...more

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To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends.I’d never be satisfied to limit myself to just one experience each with...more

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It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

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I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in...more

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In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault.