Nick Senger

“Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.”
― Clifton Fadiman, The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classic Guide to World Literature

“The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting that your knowledge of my character, and of what kind of a mortal I am, by the one, would give you a better relish for the other: As you proceed further with me, the slight acquaintance which is now beginning betwixt us, will grow into familiarity; and that, unless one of us is in fault, will terminate in friendship.”
― Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
― Edmund Burke