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Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that…
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To read without joy is stupid.
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In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and…
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A war doesn’t merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a…
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In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first…
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In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one…
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The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected…
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It seems to me that the moralist is the most useless and contemptible of creatures. He is useless in that he would…
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
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A boy is a long time before he knows his alphabet, longer before he has learned to spell, and perhaps several years…
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Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly…
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