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BOOKS AND READING

 

 

INTRODUCTION

Read the quotes below and select the one(s) that best reflect(s) the role of books and reading in contemporary world. Give an account for your choice.

 

‘Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profound thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it, you can’t expect an apostle to look out.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Henry Ward Beecher

A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there – that of the pulse, the heart beat.

Henry Miller

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Salman Rushdie

A book is like a man – clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.

John Steinbeck

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Mark Twain

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

William Murray

Your library is your portrait.

Holbrook Jackson

What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fullness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us.

John Bright


PART I

 



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