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- Fernando Pessoa99◆ There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
- P.G. Wodehouse99◆ Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
- Henry James99◆ He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
- John Green99◆ There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald99◆ It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.
- Stephen Fry99◆ No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o'clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.
- Ishmael Reed99◆ From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a day as long as she lived.
- Betty Smith99◆ When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.
- Maya Angelou99◆ Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.
- Christopher Hitchens99◆ A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
- Italo Calvino99◆ Without literature, life is hell.
- Charles Bukowski99◆ In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.
- Sophie Kinsella99◆ Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.
- Matthew Quick99◆ The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.
- Roald Dahl99
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