“Like dreaming, reading performs the prodigious task of carrying us off to other worlds. But reading is not dreaming because books, unlike… — Victor Null Copy Share Image
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Henry Kissinger once told me he was very concerned about the Internet's impact on people's ability to absorb information in a concentrated… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
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When my younger son was 13 years old, he asked me to read 'Swallows and Amazons' to him while he made models.… — Michelle Magorian Copy Share Image
Education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is innately bad at. Children don't have to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
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Adam Brown’s zest for life led him down a few dark alleys and more than one dead end. Kind-hearted and wild, Adam… — Stu Weber Copy Share Image
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Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm not going to tell you the movies, but I remember getting halfway through the thing and everything sort of tunnel-visioned on… — John Corbett Copy Share Image
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I got interested in Zen when I was a teenage beatnik on the streets of San Francisco. And it was my interest… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
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The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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I challenge youth to cooperate with parents who are concerned about your reading and your viewing. Be concerned yourself about what you… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
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What was once a cottage industry dedicated to the discovery and development of new voices and works has become instead the raison… — Caridad Svich Copy Share Image
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