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There is really no way of considering a book independently of one's special sensations in reading it on a particular occasion.

— Edmund Wilson The Triple Thinkers (1938)

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In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

The Triple Thinkers (1938)

It may be that there is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

Memoirs of Hecate County (1946)

Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.

To the Finland Station : A Study in the Acting and Writing of History (1940)

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Memoirs of Hecate County (1946)

The more I have thought about Figures of Earth — and its sequel The Silver Stallion — the more remarkable they have come to seem.

James Branch Cabell 1897 - 1958 (1958)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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