2012년 7월 27일 금요일

To read is to fly


To Fly

To read is to fly:
it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view
over  wide terrains of history, 

human variety, ideas, shared experience and the
fruits of many inquiries.

- A. C. Grayling
Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road.
They are the destination, and the journey.
They are home.
- Anna Quindlen
Germany
India 
Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something,
learned something, become a better person.
Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on…
Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.
- Nora Ephron
India
Everywhere I go in the world, I see young and old, rich and poor, reading books.   

Whether readers are engaged in the sacred or the secular, they are, for a time,
transported to  another world.
Thailand
India
Reading a good book is a universal activity, and people read while they do
just about everything else, and that includes reading while playing the
piano, which my sister used to do.
Sri Lanka
At one magical instant in your early childhood, 
the page of a book–that string of confused, alien ciphers–shivered into meaning. 
Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. 
You became, irrevocably, a reader.
- Alberto Manguel
Burma
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly,
into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.
- Joyce Carol Oates
Lourdes, France
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; 

they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the 
most patient of teachers.  
- Charles William Eliot
Italy
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
- James Russell Lowell
India
We read to know we are not alone. 
- C.S. Lewis
Tibet
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
- Jorge Luis Borges
China
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still,
retreat or fly into the future.
- Jim Bishop
Thailand

That’s what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, 

and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will
lead you onto a third book. It’s geometrically progressive
- all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
India
Kashmir
Korea
We live for books.
-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose 
Canada
Turkey
Afghanistan
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.- Victor Hugo
Italy 
Yemen
I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the 
most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
- Wisława Szymborska
1996 Nobel Prize in Literature
India
Cuba
Japan
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.- Rene Descartes

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