 | "Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
- Albert Einstein
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| "This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."
- Alfred Hitchcock
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| "The covers of this book are too far apart."
- Ambrose Bierce
, The Devil's Dictionary. |
| "Wear the old coat and buy the new book."
- Austin Phelps
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| "Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them."
- Charles Caleb Colton
, Lacon, 1820. |
| "I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage."
- Charles De Secondat
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| "Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers."
- Charles W. Eliot
, The Happy Life, 1896. |
| "It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead."
- Dame Rose Macaulay
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| "Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development."
- Dorothy L. Sayers
, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, 1928. |
| "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
- Dorothy Parker
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