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Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.
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It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.
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If a book read when young is a lover, that same book, reread later on, is a friend.
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E-mail is a modern Penny Post: the world is a single city with a single postal rate.
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The action most worth watching is not at the center of things, but where edges meet.
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I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.
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If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering—naked and alone
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Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.
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If my father were still writing essays, every full-grown 'girl' would probably be transformed into a'woman'.
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In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.
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When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose
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One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.
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To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown, you've only pressed Pause.
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The reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again.
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I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.
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Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
August 7, 1953
(age 70)
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