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From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

Benjamin Franklin

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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Topic

Tsundoku Bibliophilia Reading Books

Author

Benjamin Franklin

Source

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1790 1790s 18th century

Era

American Revolutionary Period

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Franklin, Benjamin. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, edited by Charles W. Elliot. P. F. Collier & Son, Co., 1909.

Current Citation

Franklin, Benjamin. "The Autobiography." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005, pt. 1.

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister

Game of Thrones

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Topic

Books Reading

Speaker

Tyrion Lannister

Actor

Peter Dinklage

Source

Game of Thrones

Medium

TV program

Genre

Fantasy (TV) Drama (TV) Fantasy Drama

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Citation

"The Kingsroad." Game of Thrones, written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss and George R.R. Martin, directed by Timothy Van Patten, season 1, episode 2, Television 360 and Grok! Studio, 2011.

I discovered me in the library.

Ray Bradbury

Quoted in Paris Review

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Topic

Libraries Self-discovery Reading Books

Speaker

Ray Bradbury

Source

Art of Fiction interview Paris Review

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

2010 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Bradbury, Ray. "Ray Bradbury, The Art of Fiction No. 203." Interviewed by Sam Weller. Paris Review, Spring 2010.

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

John Ruskin

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Topic

Reading Confirmation bias

Speaker

John Ruskin

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1864 1860s 19th century

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Citation

Ruskin, John. "Of Kings' Treasuries." Dec. 1864, Rusholme, Manchester, England, UK. Lecture.

There is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

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Topic

Reading Books

Speaker

Caroline Bingley

Author

Jane Austen

Source

Pride and Prejudice

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1813 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 11.

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 11.

I have done my plowing:
I have sown my seed.
Again I have time to sit and read my books.

Tao Yuanming

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Topic

Leisure Reading

Author

Tao Yuanming

Language

Chinese

Time

427 420s 5th century

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Citation

Yuanming, Tao. Reading the Book of Hills and Seas. c. 427.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Samuel Johnson

Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, by James Boswell

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Topic

Reading Books

Speaker

Samuel Johnson

Author

James Boswell

Source

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D

Genre

Biography

Language

English

Time

1763 1760s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 9 July 1763.

Current Citation

Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon

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Reading Writing Books

Author

Francis Bacon

Source

Of Studies Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1625 1620s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Bacon, Francis. "Of Studies." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

Current Citation

Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Studies." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ray Bradbury

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Topic

Culture Reading Books

Author

Ray Bradbury

Source

Seattle Times

Medium

Interview Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Bradbury, Ray. "Bradbury Still Believes In Heat of 'Fahrenheit 451.'" Interviewed by Misha Berson. The New York Times, 12 Mar. 1993.

The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.

Yoshida Kenko

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Topic

Reading

Author

Yoshida Kenko

Source

Essays in Idleness

Language

Japanese

Time

1332 1330s 14th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Yoshida Kenko. Tsurezuregusa [Essays in Idleness]. c. 1332, ch. 13.

Current Citation

Yoshida Kenko. Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko, translated by Donald Keene. Columbia University Press, 1998, ch. 13.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Topic

Reading Books

Author

Logan Pearsall Smith

Language

English

Time

1931 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Smith, Logan Pearsall. "Myself." Afterthoughts. Constable & Company, 1931.

Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe.

Superman

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Topic

Reading Perception

Speaker

Lex Luthor

Actor

Gene Hackman

Source

Superman

Medium

Film

Genre

Superhero (film) Superhero

Language

English

Time

1978 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Superman: The Movie. Directed by Richard Donner, Dovemead Films, 1978.

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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Topic

Reading Self-discovery Books Power of literature

Author

Marcel Proust

Source

Time Regained In Search of Lost Time

Medium

Novel

Genre

Modernist literature

Language

French

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. Albertine disparue [Albertine Gone]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

Current Citation

Proust, Marcel. The Fugitive, edited and translated by Peter Collier. Penguin Classics, 2021.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while.

Aleister Crowley

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Topic

Newspapers Reading Media criticism

Author

Aleister Crowley

Source

The Spirit of Solitude

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Crowley, Aleister. The Spirit of Solitude. Mandrake Press, 1929.