Madame Picard believed that a child should be allowed to read anything: ‘A book never does any harm if it is well written.’ While she was there, I had once asked permission to read Madame Bovary and my mother, in an oversweet voice, had said: ‘But if my darling reads books like that at his age, what will he do when he grows up?’ ‘I shall live them!’ This reply had met with the most complete and lasting success.
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Say stupid shit. Barf out the fucking-around-o-maniacal schizo flow. Barter whatever for whoever wants to read it.
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process.
Learning to read, and to a lesser degree, to write, are of course the major events in one’s intellectual development. There is nothing to compare with it, since very few people (Helen Keller is the great exception) can remember what it meant for them to learn to speak.
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He might be ragged and cold, or even starving, but so long as he could read, think and watch for meteors, he was, as he said, free in his own mind.
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
No one will read what I write here, no one will come to help me… My ship is rudderless, it’s driven by the wind blowing into the nethermost regions of death.
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.