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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead. – Van Wyck Brooks

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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. – Joseph Brodsky

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There is reading, and there is reading. Reading as a means to an end, for information, to cultivate oneself; reading as an end in itself, a process, a compulsion. – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)

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The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. – Samuel Butler

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My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. – Thomas Helm

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