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Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.

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I am more optimistic, both about reading and about books. There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers – there always were. Reading is ...more

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It's the best way of telling the truth; it's a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of fa...more

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..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.

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When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different countries, mores...more

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Reading is a majority skill but a minority art.

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Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised ...more

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I didn't doubt for a moment that she had read them all, or that they were the right books to own. Further, they seemed to be an organic combination of...more