“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
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“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
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“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
“In reading a recent novel, I myself was convicted by a comment the mother makes to her adult daughter: ‘My dear, you’ve missed so many opportunities to say nothing.’ We do miss these opportunities, as well as opportunities to say less and say it more judiciously. And so we miss particular delights of finding words and speaking them into silences big enough to allow them to be heard.”
― Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies
― Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies
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