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When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a youn…

Maya Angelou

If democracy is going to function as it should, the man-in-the-street is going to have to think bett…

Robert Maynard Hutchins

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

P.G. Wodehouse

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Oscar Wilde

It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understand…

Salman Rushdie

There is no List with a capital L. The great books are simply the books which deal most incisively, …

Milton Mayer

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings…

F. Scott Fitzgerald

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that …

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more …

Alice Waters