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Books

«We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.»
Author: B. F. Skinner | About: Books | Keywords: books, Great Books, reading, readings, Teach
«This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.»
«This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.»
Author: George F. Burns | About: Books | Keywords: bad guy, Bad Guys, sixth
«Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.»
«To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.»
«To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.»
«Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.»
«Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.»
«We cannot learn men from books.»
«This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.»