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I read the other day in a book by a fashionable essayist that ghosts went out when the electric light came in. What nonsense!

Quote by Edith Wharton about opinion, light, day

I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read of the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.

HQuote by Henry George Strauss about irony, smokers, americans

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

Quote by John Barrymore about poetry, miracle

The best job for an author is to be a postman. It has nothing to do with writing, it gets him out in the air, he sees what is going on in his community, he can read everyone’s postcards, and he comes back to his desk refreshed, not weary of words.

Quote by Albert Joseph Guerard about literature, air, writing, word, nothing

The best books I've ever read I found in the people who I got to know them.

Quote by Marius Torok about books, people

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Quote by Eleanor R. Hampton about literature, encouragement, people, contentment

Life: a book that we are not allowed to read before living, but only to anticipate what is written one, three, maybe ten pages from now

Quote by Mariana Fulger about life

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Quote by Francis Bacon about age, olderness, old, wine, drinking, things

The time to read, like the time to love, expands the time to live.

DQuote by Daniel Pennac about time, love