We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
—B. F. Skinner (via absynthe-words)
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We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
—B. F. Skinner (via absynthe-words)
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“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape.
—Isabel Allende (via excessivebookshelf)
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If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
—Albert Einstein (via bookneverending)
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
—Victor Hugo (via ilovereadingandwriting)
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Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
— Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid (via bookporn)
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
—Oscar Wilde (via thebookishdark)
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I was born with a reading list I will never finish.
—Maud Casey (via a-bibliophiles-blog)
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Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.
—William Ewart Gladstone (via scrapboop)
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