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  • #1
    Francis Bacon
    “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
    Sir Francis Bacon

  • #2
    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    Charles W. Eliot

  • #3
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #4
    Pat Conroy
    “You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
    Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

  • #5
    Stephen  King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #6
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    “People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
    Logan Pearsall Smith

  • #7
    William Faulkner
    “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
    Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
    William Faulkner

  • #8
    Anna Quindlen
    “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
    Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

  • #9
    Hayley Williams
    “Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”
    Hayley Williams

  • #10
    Rick Riordan
    “Suspecting and knowing are not the same.”
    Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

  • #11
    Lemony Snicket
    “Even though there are no ways of knowing for sure, there are ways of knowing for pretty sure.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #12
    Plato
    “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
    Plato, The Republic

  • #13
    Junot Díaz
    “If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.”
    Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

  • #14
    Suzanne Collins
    “Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #15
    Erich Segal
    “The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.”
    Erich Segal, Love Story

  • #16
    Toba Beta
    “Sometimes..
    I didn't know what I sought until I've found it.”
    Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

  • #17
    Marcel Jouhandeau
    “To really know someone is to have
    love and hated him in turn.”
    Marcel Jouhandeau



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