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“Reading for me, is spending time with a friend.” – Gary Paulsen
2.
“A book is a gift you can open again and again.” – Garrison Keillor
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“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” – Frederick Douglass
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“Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely.” – Stephen King
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“There’s no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.” – Christopher Morley
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“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” – Cicero
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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.” – Jean Rhys
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“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” – Madeleine L’Engle
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“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
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“Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.” – Malorie Blackman
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“The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.” – Leo Tolstoy
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“A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.” – C.S. Lewis
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“I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.” – Roald Dahl
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“Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.” – Scott Westerfeld
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“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn’t ask ourselves what it says but what it means…” – Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
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“Think of this – that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.” – A.S. Byatt
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“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.” – Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense
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“A good book is an event in my life.” – Stendhal
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“Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.” — Jorge Luis Borges
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“Never underestimate a bookworm” – Louisa Klein, Supernatural Freak
