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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

 

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Books are the best of things, well used; abused, the worst. What is the right use? What is the end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satelite instead of a system.



Ralph Waldo Emerson:

 

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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

 

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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

 

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Rose Macaulay:
Only one hour in a day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.

 

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The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with

 

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The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading: but a great book that comes from a great thinker -- it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and with beauty.

 

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[A] lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

 

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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds... In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most previous thought, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked

 

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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

 

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Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- his excessive freedom. He accepts his

 

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bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

 

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Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.

 

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Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

 

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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

 

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When people are bored, it is primarily

 

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Fritz Redl:
Boredom will always remain the greatest enemy of school disciplines. If we remember that children are bored, not only when they don't happen to be interested in the subject or when the teacher doesn't make it interesting, but also when certain working conditions are out of focus with their basic needs, then we can realize what a great contributor to discipline problems boredom really is. Research has shown that boredom is closely related to frustration and that the effect of too much frustration is invariably irritability, withdrawal

 

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What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

 

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Boredom: the desire for desires.

 

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Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.