W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Reading
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Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.
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I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.
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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
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I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
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Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.
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