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 //"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it." - J.D. Salinger

“ In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” //
 * Mortimer Jerome Adler**

I have to take myself firmly in hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer. //(1952)// ~ Anne Frank ~ its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
 * I**f I read a book that impresses me,
 * O**f all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up

~ Joseph Addison ~ To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
~ Edmund Burke ~

**"I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget." -- William Phelps

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. ~Mark Twain  Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. ~ Joseph Addison ~ 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 Angelou ~**

~ Mortimer J. Adler ~ stand still, retreat or fly into the future. ~ Jim Bishop ~
 * R**eading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
 * B ** ooks, I found, had the power to make time

" We read to know we are not alone." - C.S. Lewis
 **"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." -Joseph Addison**

"Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are."- Mason Cooley
**T**o feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
 * ~** Gaston Bachelard **~**

“A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.” - Malcolm Bradbury

"I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander." -Isaac Asimov

"Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequaled by any other form of communication." - E.B White

 "A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others" - Abraham Lincoln
 * **“** To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.**”** ||
 * [[image:http://www.readfaster.com/images/pixel.gif width="20" height="1"]] - A C Grayling, Financial Times (in a review of A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel) ||


 * “The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” ||
 * [[image:http://www.readfaster.com/images/pixel.gif width="20" height="1"]] - Dr. Seuss, "I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!"

// **"** //// **Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can reach." -Jim Rohn** //  || <span style="color: #c80000; font-family: Times New Roman,Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> <span style="color: #ff5a00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"><span style="color: #c80000; font-family: Times New Roman,Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> “**No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.<span style="color: #c80000; font-family: Times New Roman,Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> **” - <span style="color: #ff5a00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 121%;"> <span style="color: #ff5a00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Confucius

"Reading surrounds us, labels us, defines us." //**Xerox PARC** - Rich Gold

**I**'ve traveled the world twice over, Met the famous; saints and sinners, Poets and artists, kings and queens, Old stars and hopeful beginners, I've been where no-one's been before, Learned secrets from writers and cooks All with one library ticket To the wonderful world of books. ~ Anonymous ~ //

**P** eople die, but books never die. ~ Anonymous ~ - Stephane Mallarme
 * Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.**

<span style="font-family: Times; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">T here is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island. ~ Walt Disney ~

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. ~ Joseph Addison ~

=== **<span style="font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;">A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy. ~Edward P. Morgan " ** ===

<span style="color: #3b3bed; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all." - Oscar Wilde**

** R **** ead not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. ** ~ Francis Bacon ~

<span style="color: #ff006d; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal;">Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. ~ Francis Bacon ~

A library is a hospital for the mind.
<span style="background-color: #f5ee24; color: #ef0606; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">-Anonymous

<span style="color: #ff5a00; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content." -Paul Valery
<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." - Dr. Seuss. **<span style="color: #0003ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">B ** <span style="color: #0003ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">ooks had instant replay long before televised sports. ~ Bert Williams ~ <span style="color: #9d0747; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="color: #7400ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: medium;">The person who ** deserves ** <span style="color: #7400ff; font-family: Georgia,fantasy; font-size: medium; line-height: 19px;"> m<span style="font-family: Georgia,fantasy;">ost  // pity // <span style="color: #7400ff; font-family: Georgia,fantasy; font-size: medium; line-height: 19px;"> i<span style="font-family: Georgia,fantasy;">s a  <span style="color: #9d0747; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">lonesome <span style="color: #7400ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 19px;"> one on a <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**<span style="color: #3b3bed; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">rainy ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="color: #097b09; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">day <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="color: #7400ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">//<span style="color: #008080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"><span style="color: #7400ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 19px;">who doesn't know how to read READ //. - **<span style="color: #f77eb1; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Benjamin Franklin ** <span style="color: #7400ff; font-family: Georgia,fantasy; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">- “Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” ~Harry S. Truman <span style="color: #6a16d0; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began. ~ Rita Mae Brown ~ <span style="color: #6a16d0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18pt; text-align: left;">

<span style="color: #6a16d0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: left;"> ~ Amos Bronson Alcott ~
<span style="color: #ff5a00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">**T**here are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ~ Joseph Brodsky ~

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<span style="color: #6615c6; font-family: Georgia,serif;">"It is not true we have <span style="background-color: #f77eb1; color: #ef0606; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">only one life to love <span style="color: #6615c6; font-family: Georgia,serif;">, if we can <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">read <span style="color: #6615c6; font-family: Georgia,serif;">, we can live as many lives and as many <span style="background-color: #f5ee24; color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">kinds of lives <span style="color: #6615c6; font-family: Georgia,serif;">as we wish." ===== ===<span style="color: #b517b5; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"> - S.I. Hayakawa <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> "I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget." - - William Phelps <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"> ** S <span style="color: #6a16d0; font-family: Georgia,fantasy; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px;">how me the books he loves and I shall know the man ** <span style="color: #6a16d0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: medium; text-align: center;">far better than through mortal friends. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #6a16d0; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; text-align: center;">~<span style="color: #003eff; font-family: Georgia,fantasy; line-height: 19px;">Dawn Adams<span style="color: #6a16d0; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">~    ===
 * <span style="color: #c80000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Arial; font-size: 9pt;">**“** Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.<span style="color: #c80000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Arial; font-size: 9pt;">**”** ||
 * [[image:http://www.readfaster.com/images/pixel.gif width="20" height="1"]] - Emilie Buchwald ||

//**Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written. - Yevgeny Zamyatin**//

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"> The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one. Sir James Goldsmith

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"> ====//<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%;">“When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.” //==== <span style="color: #000066; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;"> - Christopher Morley

"The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation." - Johann Wolfgang von Geothe

//<span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">"Every man that knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting." //<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> -Aldous Huxley

"The **greatest** gift is a //passion for reading//, It is __cheap__, it __consoles__, it __distracts__, it __excites__, it __gives__ you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind . It is moral illumination ." - Elizabeth Hardwick

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> "To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark." — Victor Hugo, //Les Miserables//