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#1

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

#2

“Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
― Arnold Lobel

tags: books, reading

1833 likes

#3

“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.”
― Henry Ward Beecher

tags: book-lover, reading

492 likes

#4

“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
― Malcolm X

tags: books, reading

2402 likes

#5

“I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: reading

142 likes

#6

“I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.”
― Sholem Asch

tags: books, knowledge, reading

62 likes

#7

“Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.”
― Laura Malone Elliott, Annie, Between the States

tags: music, novels, plays, poetry, reading

82 likes

#8

“A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement. ”
― Holbrook Jackson

tags: books, reading

37 likes

#9

“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: books, garden, reading

1155 likes

#10

“Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.”
― Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis

tags: book, explore, reading

167 likes

#11

“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.”
― Elizabeth Hardwick

tags: reading

55 likes

#12

“You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.”
― Paul Rand

tags: reading, understanding

55 likes

#13

“Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it.”
― Stephanie Connolly

tags: inspirational, reading, words, writing

43 likes

#14

“What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.”
― Rikki Ducornet, The Fan-Maker's Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade

tags: books, reading

46 likes

#15

“Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.”
― Vera Nazarian

tags: book, books, education, enlightenment, light, literacy, read, reading

122 likes

#16

“We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.”
― T. S. Eliot

119 likes

#17

“Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on.”
― Richard Carlson, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff for Teens: Simple Ways to Keep Your Cool in Stressful Times

tags: reading

44 likes

#18

“I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.”
― Sharon Draper

tags: education, reading, writing

28 likes

#19

“You'll never be alone if you’ve got a book.”
― Al Pacino

tags: books, literature, reading

149 likes

#20

“Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.”
― David Quammen, The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder

tags: books, literature, reading, words

225 likes

#21

“There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.”
― Robert Ingersoll

tags: books, reading

32 likes

#22

“What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.”
― Paul Valéry

tags: reading, writing

36 likes

#23

“You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.”
― James Patterson, The Christmas Wedding

tags: book, nothingness, reading, thoughts

45 likes

#24

“I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and dont get to discover any others.”
― Richard Denney

tags: author, inspirational, reading, richard-deneny

24 likes

#25

“Suddenly the reader's eyes were filled with tears, and a loving voice whispered in his ear: -Why are you crying if everything in that book isn't true?- And the reader replied: -I know; but what I feel is real.”
― Ángel González

tags: books, reading

11 likes

#26

“I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark. ”
― Steve Wright

tags: humor, reading

8 likes

#27

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

47067 likes

#28

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

45248 likes

#29

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

20156 likes

#30

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

9103 likes

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