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Reading Quotes by Anna Quindlen
- Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why…
- Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and the everyday. If…
- We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.
- A finished person is a boring person.
- Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
- In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
- While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who…
- Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to you…
- How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and Prejudice and find…
- All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.
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