People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. – Logan Pearsall Smith, Trivia, 1917
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Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death hath no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever. – J. Swartz
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
The book borrower…proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures…as by his failure to read these books. – Walter Benjamin
My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didnt because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children. – Bill Cosby
