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I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.
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Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.
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Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
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Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we’re someone else.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.
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Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape—I didn’t read to learn, I was reading to read.
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Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.
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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
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Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.
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Salvation is certainly among the reasons I read. Reading and writing have always pulled me out of the darkest experiences in my life. Stories have given me a place in which to lose myself.
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Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.
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If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of survival increase with each book one reads.
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
These quotes highlight the power and joy of reading a good book.
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A book club is a reading group who read and talk about books based on a topic or an agreed-upon reading list.
The book club can meet monthly. That will give members enough time to read the book, think about key ideas, and prepare for the meeting.
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