To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.
People still try to sell books that way - as 'books can take you to foreign lands.' We've given children this idea that reading and books are a nice option, if you want that kind of thing. I hope we can get over that idea.
Why buy a book when you can join a library.
One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
I long for books; I am utterly greedy about them.
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