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“The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.”
― Gabriel Zaid, So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance
tags: books, composure, culture, unread
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Doris Lessing
“Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.”
― Doris Lessing
tags: unread
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Austin Kleon
“Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, “Nothing is more important than an unread library.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
tags: books, bookshelves, library, reading, tsundoku, unread, unread-books
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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China Miéville
“The manager of my line told me, You never put anything down except to be read. Every word ever written is written to be read and if some go unread that's only chance, failure, they're like grubs that die without changing.”
― China Miéville, This Census-Taker
tags: chance, failure, grubs, manager, reading, unread, words, writers, writing
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Jack Freestone
“Nothing makes a writer write more, than being unread.”
― Jack Freestone
tags: unknown, unread, writers, writers-on-writing, writers-quotes, writing, writing-quotes
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Rachel Carson
“It is spread before us like the pages of an open book in which we can read why the land is what it is, and why we should preserve its integrity. But the pages lie unread.”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
tags: land, nature, unread
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