Ok! I'm back now! Ok, so here's what different people over time have said about reading & books:
"Wear the old coat and buy the new book."
-Austin Phelps
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency--the belief that the here and now is all there is.
-Allan Bloom
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
-André Gide
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
-Harper Lee
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
-Montesquieu
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few are to be chewed and digested."
-Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
"He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes."
-Barrow
"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
-Edmund Burke
"The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age."
-Isaac D'Israeli (1766-1848)
"There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing."
-Isaac D'Israeli (1766-1848)
"Reading without thinking is as nothing. For a books is less important of what it says than what it makes you think." The Walking Drum by Louis L'Amour
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September 2000
TOPIC: BOOKS
Hi! So you really did decide to drop in for a completely off the wall (not to mention free) lecture on the wonders of the book world (which is so wonderful by the way, but you didn't know that did you? Else you wouldn't be here!)
Anyway, enough of that totally sick rambling. You're here for a reason so I must endeavor to meet that. OOps! out of time. Guess I'll have to tell you later. It's my lunch break. Then I have English class. My teacher's nice if that means anything to you weird people out there.
