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Angels in the house always die in the books they preside over because early ascension into heaven is their reward—and because their goodness makes them boring.

— Maureen Corrigan Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading (2005)

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Jane has learned that there is a fate more terrible than solitude: it’s solitude in the company of a husband who essentially misunderstands you.

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading (2005)

As Richard Rodriguez points out in his beautiful and incisive memoir Hunger of Memory, when academics now talk on about race, class, and gender, what they’re usually talking about is race and gender.

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading (2005)

Books just don’t register with this crowd. They think I lack common sense; I think they lack a part of their souls.

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading (2005)

As someone from our adoption agency said to us before we left, “You may have been waiting for your daughter for a long time, but she has not been waiting for you.”

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading (2005)

In our daily lives, where we’re bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out the noise of the world, and try to grab hold of something real, no matter how small.

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading (2005)

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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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