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Some quotes and then to bed By: Chie Theresa Fujioka on 1/4/2001; 12:08 AM Yeh i flooded you with some of my papers, not all :) be glad. Here are some quotes about one of my hobbies to chuckle over :) I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method. James Thurber (1894-1961) I read part of it all the way through. Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974 The mere brute pleasure of reading- the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. . . . You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. Angela Carter (1940-92) The existence of good bad literature- the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously- is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration. George Orwell (1903-50) Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. A. Bronson Alcott (1799-1888) The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all. Carolyn Wells (1870-1942), U.S. author. On Books. An illiterate king is a crowned ass. William of Malmesbury (1068-1135). He ate and drank the precious Words, His Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was Dust. Emily Dickinson (1830-86) No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. Robert Frost (1874-1963) All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. . . . There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content. Henry Miller (1891-1980) OK goodniught
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