–Tyrion Lannister in George R R Martin’s A Game of Thrones
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700 – “Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!”
–Neil Gaiman
663 – Will Durant on Living History
“It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The present is merely the past rolled up and concentrated in this second of time. You, too, are your past; often your face is your autobiography; you are what you are because of what you have been; because of your heredity stretching back into forgotten generations; because of every element of environment that has affected you, every man or woman that has met you, every book that you have read, every experience that you have had; all these are accumulated in your memory, your body, your character, your soul. So with a city, a country, and a race; it is its past, and cannot be understood without it.”
–Henry Steele Commager (more…)
608 – “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
–Charles W Eliot
604 – “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
–William Somerset Maugham
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564 – “Books to the ceiling, books to the sky, my pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by time I read them.”
–Arnold Lobel
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540 – “Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
–Mason Cooley [Attributed]
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