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. . . RAP see: "MUSIC" for related links Two rap music artists have had their music banned from sale to minors under censorship guidelines. Florida-based MC Khia's single My Neck, My Back, which explicitly describes oral sex, and album Thug Misses, which includes the track F*** Dem Other Hoes, and New York rapper Necro's album, Brutality Part One, whose raps include the proper way of getting rid of a dead body, have been banned by the Australian Record Industry Association. --Carla Caruso, "X-rated rappers" [c. 2005] Rock and roll was music to get pregnant by. Rap is music to get dead by. --Lewis Grizzard (19461994) American author and commentator on the American South. If I'm more of an influence to your son as a rapper than you are as a father . . . you've got to look at yourself as a parent. --Ice Cube (b. 1970) American rap musician. In "Rolling Stone" [4 October 1990].  ;void(0)) RAPE OF NANKING . . see: "EVIL" for related links - Saturday, December 18. A day of complete anarchy. Several big fires raging today, started by the soldiers, and more are promised ... Some houses are entered from five to ten times in one day, and the poor people looted and robbed and the women raped. Several were killed in cold blood, for no apparent reason whatever. Thursday, December 23. Seventy men were taken from our camp at the Rural Leaders' Training School and shot. No system soldiers seize anyone they suspect. Callouses on hands are proof that the man was a soldier, a sure death warrant. Rickshaw coolies, carpenters and other laborers are frequently taken. --Dr. M. Searle Bates, diary entries [December 1937] in Harold Timperley _What War Means_ [1938] pp.25-29. (Dr. Bates was an American teacher at Nanjing University and an eyewitness to the atrocities.) - The final death count was almost incredible, between 1,578,000 and 6,325,000 people. R.J. Rummel gives a prudent estimate of 3,949,000 killed, of which all but 400,000 were civilians. But he points out that millions more perished from starvation and disease caused in large part by Japanese looting, bombing, and medical experimentation. If those deaths are added to the final count, then one can say that the Japanese killed more than 19 million Chinese people in its war against China. --Iris Chang (19682004) American historian. _The Rape of Nanking, The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II_ [1997] & see: [Iris] Chang learned from her research [of the Nanking atrocities] that 'civilization itself is tissue-thin.' She adds 'Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided that they occur far enough away to pose no personal threat.' --Ralph Kinney Bennett _Reader's Digest_ [September 1998], "The Woman Who Wouldn't Forget" - - I remember being driven in a truck along a path that had been cleared through piles of thousands and thousands of slaughtered bodies. Wild dogs were gnawing at the dead flesh as we stopped and pulled a group of Chinese prisoners out of the back. Then the Japanese officer proposed a test of my courage. He unsheathed his sword, spat on it, and with a sudden mighty swing he brought it down on the neck of a Chinese boy cowering before us. The head was cut clean off and tumbled away on the group as the body slumped forward, blood spurting in two great gushing fountains from the neck. The officer suggested I take the head home as a souvenir. I remember smiling proudly as I took his sword and began killing people. [...] Few know that soldiers impaled babies on bayonets and tossed them still alive into pots of boiling water. They gang-raped women from the ages of twelve to eighty and then killed them when they could no longer satisfy sexual requirements. I beheaded people, starved them to death, burned them, and buried them alive, over two hundred in all. It is terrible that I could turn into an animal and do these things. There are really no words to explain what I was doing. I was truly a devil. --Hakudo Nagatomi, quoted in Iris Chang's _The Rape of Nanjing: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II_ [1997]. . . see: "ANIMALS" for related links - Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladle's, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. --Robert Browning (18121889) English poet. _The Pied Piper of Hamelin_ & note: Later mythmakers invested the Middle Ages with a bogus aura of romance. The Pied Piper of Hamelin is an example. He was a real man, but there was nothing enchanting about him. Quite the opposite; he was horrible, a psychopath and pederast who, on June 20, 1484, spirited away 130 children in the Saxon village of Hemmel and used them in unspeakable ways. Accounts of the aftermath vary. According to some, his victims were never seen again; others told of dismembered little bodies found scattered in the forest underbrush or festooning the branches of trees. --William Manchester (19222004) American historian. _A World Lit Only by Fire_, p. 66 [1992] - I begin to smell a rat. --Miguel de Cervantes (15471616) Spanish novelist. _Don Quixote de la Mancha_, pt. I, bk. IV, ch. 10 [1605] If you don't need them, don't feed them. That goes for cats, rats, mother-in-laws and so forth. --James Murphy, rodent control officer, Washington, D.C., in the "New York Times," [10 August 1985]. I was never unusually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it was necessary. --Henry David Thoreau (18171862) American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher. _Walden_ [1854], "Higher Laws" - Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat. --attributed to anon., Lily Tomlin, & William Sloane Coffin, Jr.. -- [Trivia] Rats can swim for a 1/2 mile without resting, and they can tread water for 3 days straight. . . see: "SUCCESS" for related links No time like the present. --Mrs Manley (16631724) English novelist and dramatist. _The Lost Lover_ [1696] Go ahead, make my day. --Joseph C. Stinson (1947 ) _Sudden Impact_ [1983 film]; spoken by Clint Eastwood. ----- alacrity [uh-LACK-ruh-tee], noun: A cheerful or eager readiness or willingness, often manifested by brisk, lively action or promptness in response. Ex.: As for his homemade meatloaf sandwich with green tomato ketchup, a condiment he developed while working in New York, I devoured it with an alacrity unbecoming in someone who gets paid to taste carefully. -- R.W. Apple Jr., "Southern Tastes, Worldly Memories," _New York Times_ [26 April 2000] . . see: "AUTHORS" see: "BOOKS" see: "NEWSPAPERS" see: "POETRY" see: "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for other related links see: "KNOWLEDGE" for other related links Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. --Joseph Addison (16721719) English essayist, poet, and dramatist. _Tatler_, [1709-1711], # 147 - If you are reading in order to become a better reader, you cannot read just any book or article. You will not improve as a reader if all you read are books that are well within your capacity. You must tackle books that are beyond you, or, as we have said, books that are over your head. Only books of that sort will make you stretch your mind. --Mortimer J. Adler (19022001) American philosopher, educator, and editor. _How to Read a Book_ [1940] "Reading and the Growth of the Mind" Suppose there were a college or university in which the faculty was thus composed: Herodotus and Thucydides taught the history of Greece, and Gibbon lectured on the fall of Rome. Plato and St. Thomas gave a course in metaphysics together; Francis Bacon and John Stuart Mill discussed the logic of science; Aristotle, Spinoza, and Immanuel Kant shared the platform on moral problems; Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke talked about politics. You could take a series of courses in mathematics from Euclid, Descartes, Riemann, and Cantor, with Bertrand Russell and A.N.Whitehead added at the end. You could listen to St. Augustine, Aquinas and William James talk about the nature of man and the human mind, with perhaps Jacques Maritain to comment on the lectures. In economics, the lectures were by Adam Smith, Ricardo, Karl Marx, and Marshall. Boas discussed the human race and its races, Thorstein Veblen and John Dewey the economic and political problems of American democracy, and Lenin lectured on communism. There might even be lectures on art by Leonardo da Vinci, and a lecture on Leonardo by Freud. A much larger faculty than this is imaginable, but this will suffice. Would anyone want to go to any other university, if he could get into this one? There need be no limitation of numbers. The price of admission the only entrance requirement is the ability and willingness to read and discuss. This school exists for everybody who is willing and able to learn from first-rate teachers. --Mortimer J. Adler (19022001) American philosopher, educator, and editor. _Great Issues in Education_, vol. 2 [Great Books Foundation, 1956] - I took a speed-reading course where you run your finger down the middle of the page and was able to read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It's about Russia. --Woody Allen [Allen Stewart Konigsberg] (b. 1935) American actor, screenwriter, and director. In Phyllis Mindell letter to _New York Times_ [3 September 1995]. - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. --Francis Bacon (15611626) English philosopher and essayist. _Essays_ "Of Studies" [1625] Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. --Francis Bacon (15611626) English philosopher and essayist. _Essays_ "Of Studies" [1625] - - I started reading. I read everything I could get my hands on. . . By the time I was thirteen I had read myself out of Harlem. I had read every book in two libraries and had a card for the Forty-Second Street branch. --James Baldwin (19241987) American author and playwright. (In Ben Jacobs' _The Quotable Book Lover_ [1999], "Reading") You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive. --James Baldwin (19241987) American author and playwright. Quoted in "Life" (mag.) [24 May 1963]. - The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers. --Stan Barstow (1928 2011) English novelist. In "Daily Mail" [15 August 1989]. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. --Ray Bradbury (b. 1920) American science fiction author. Quoted in "Reader's Digest" [1994]. There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. --Joseph Brodsky [Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky] (19401996) Russian-born American poet and winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize for Literature. Quoted in "Independent on Sunday" [19 May 1991]. In science, read by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. --Edward Bulwer-Lytton (18031873) British novelist and politician. _Caxtoniana_ [1863] "Hints on Mental Culture" It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little. --attributed to Denis Parsons Burkitt (19111993) British surgeon and medical researcher. [Nikola Tesla] records that the compulsion to finish everything, once started, almost killed him when he began reading the works of Voltaire. To his dismay, he learned that there were close to one hundred volumes in small print 'which that monster had written while drinking seventy-two cups of black coffee per diem.' But there could be no peace for Tesla until he had read them all. --Margaret Cheney (b. 1921) American journalist and author. _Tesla: Man Out of Time_ [1981], "A Gambling Man" After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless. --Chinese proverb When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted. --Jean-Pierre de Crousaz (16631750) Swiss philosopher and author. _A New Treatise of the Art of Thinking. . ._, p. 112 [1724] A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. --Robertson Davies (19131995) Canadian author and playwright. "Too Much, Too Fast" in _Peterborough Examiner_ (Canada) [16 June 1962]. Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. --Denis Diderot (17131784) French writer and philosopher. Attributed in Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 338 [1908 ed.]. I read big fat "Les Miserables" for weeks while I took the IRT subway for my Wednesday allergy shots. I needed to know Jean Valjean lived a more miserable life than I did. --E.L. (Edgar Lawrence) Doctorow (b. 1931) American writer. _Lives of the Poets_ [1984] - Somebody who reads only newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely nearsighted man who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. --Albert Einstein (18791955) German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. "On Classic Literature" [February 1952], in _Ideas and Opinions_ [1954]. Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who read too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. --attributed to Albert Einstein (18791955) German-American physicist. - Someone said: 'The dead writers are remote from us because we *know* so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know. --T.S. Eliot (18881965) Anglo-American poet, critic, and dramatist. _The Sacred Wood_ [1920] "Tradition and the Individual Talent" - I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. Entry of 2 July 1867 in _Journals_, [pub. in 10 vols., 19101914]. & note: In reading authors, when you find Bright passages, that strike your mind, And which, perhaps, you may have reason To think on, at another season, Be not contented with the sight, But take them down in black and white; Such a respect is wisely shown, As makes another's sense one's own. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (17881824) English Romantic poet and satirist. "A Hint to a Young Person" - Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. --Thomas Fuller (16081661) English churchman and historian. Attributed in Edward Clodd _George Crabbe: a Biography_, p. 49 [1865]. The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one. --Oliver Goldsmith (17281774) Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and dramatist. _The Citizen of the World_, Letter LXXXIII [1762] - In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. ... It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. --S. I. (Samuel Ichiye) Hayakawa (19061992) English professor and academic; U.S. Senator from California [19771983]. _Language in Thought and Action_ [1978] & see: It is often said that one has but one life to live, but that is nonsense. For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. --Louis L'Amour [Louis Dearborn LaMoore] (19081988) American author of Western fiction. _Education of a Wandering Man_ [1989] - To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. --Victor Hugo (18021885) French poet, dramatist, and novelist. _Les Misιrables_, pt. 4, bk. 7, ch. 1 [1862] - I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. In James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791]. A man ought to read just as inclination leads him: for what he reads as a task will do him little good. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. In James Boswell _Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791] "14 July 1763". I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning; for that is a sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention; because you have done a great deal when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. Hell get better books afterwards. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. In James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791] "16 April 1779". The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. In James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791] "6 April 1775". - - 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. People often say that a set of books looks ugly if all volumes are in the same format, but I was impressed to hear the Abbot Koyu say, 'It is typical of the unintelligent man to insist on assembling complete sets of everything. Imperfect sets are better.' --Yoshida Kenko (c. 1283c. 1350) Japanese poet and essayist. _Tsurezure-gusa_ (Essays in Idleness) [c. 1330]. In M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds} _History in Quotations_ [2004]. Cohan & Major add: The priest Kenko notes the Japanese preference for irregularity: 'In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth. Someone once told me, "Even when building the imperial palace, they always leave one place unfinished. '" - I love to lose myself in other men's minds. --Charles Lamb (17751834) English essayist. _Last Essays of Elia_ [1883], "Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading" One may know the world without going out of doors. --Lao-tzu (c. 6th cent. B.C.) The first philosopher of Chinese Taoism and alleged author of the _Tao-te Ching_ (Chinese: Classic of the Way of Power). _The Way of Lao-Tzu_, # 47 - Readers usually grossly underestimate their own importance. If a reader cannot create a book along with the writer, the book will never come to life. Creative involvement: that's the difference between reading a book and watching TV. In watching TV, we are passive--sponges; we do nothing. In reading, we must become creators, imagining the setting of the story, seeing the facial expressions, hearing the inflection of the voices. The author and the reader "know" each other; they meet on the bridge of words. --Madeleine L'Engle (19182007) American writer. _Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art_ - For reading, lately I have re-read _Faerie Queene_ with enormous enjoyment. It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of it and that to my mind is one of the best tests. --C.S. [Clive Staples] Lewis (18981963) British scholar and novelist. _Letter to Arthur Greeves_ [7 December 1935]. People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes an extensive independent contemplation of things. --Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (17421799) German scientist and drama critic. In J. P. Stern's _Lichtenberg: A Doctrine of Scattered Occasions_ [1959], p. 309 "Further Excerpts from Lichtenberg's Notebooks." - Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us. --James Russell Lowell (18191891) American poet, critic, essayist, and diplomat. "Books and Libraries" Address at the opening of the Free Public Library, Chelsea, Massachusetts [22 December 1885]. A reading-machine, always wound up and going, He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. --James Russell Lowell (18191891) American poet, critic, essayist, and diplomat. _A Fable for Critics_ [1848] - I read Pride and Prejudice by day and love to go to bed with a Trollope at night! --Harold MacMillan (18941986) British Conservative statesman, Prime Minister [19571963]. On his favorite reading matter, recalled by Margaret Thatcher, and quoted by The Archbishop of Canterbury at the Lord Mayors Banquet [19 February, 2002]. Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of everyday a source of bitter disappointment. --W. Somerset Maugham (18741965) English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer. _Of Human Bondage_ [1915] 'Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are' is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you re-read. --attributed to Franηois Mauriac (18851970) French poet, novelist, and dramatist. There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (18801956) American journalist and literary critic. _Minority Report: H. L. Mencken's Notebooks_ [1956] Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore. --John Milton (16081674) English poet. _Paradise Regained_, bk. IV [1671] People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful. --Napoleon I (17691821) Emperor of France [18041815]. _The Corsican: A Diary of Napoleon's Life in His Own Words_ (ed. R. M. Johnston) [1910] It is better to read trash with enjoyment than masterpieces with yawning groans. --Harold Nicolson (18861968) English diplomat, politician, and writer. As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language. --Albert Jay Nock (18701945) American libertarian author and social critic. _Memoirs of a Superfluous Man_, ch. 1, pt. 4 [1943] Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. --P.J. O'Rourke (1947 ) American political satirist. Quoted in Bill Bradfield _Books and Reading: A Book of Quotations_, p. 45 [2002] Roast beef and Yorkshire, or roast pork and apple sauce, followed up by suet pudding and driven home, as it were, by a cup of mahogany-brown tea, have put you in just the right mood. Your pipe is drawing sweetly, the sofa cushions are soft underneath you, the fire is well alight, the air is warm and stagnant. In these blissful circumstances, what is it that you want to read about? Naturally, about a murder. --George Orwell [Eric Blair] (19031950) English novelist. "Decline of the English Murder" [written 1946] The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. --Alexander Pope (16881744) English poet. _An Essay on Criticism_ [1711] I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. --Anna Quindlen (1952 ) American writer. _Enough Bookshelves_, "New York Times" [7 August 1991] For years a secret shame destroyed my peace I'd not read Eliot, Auden, or MacNeice. But then I had a thought that brought me hope Neither had Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope. --Justin Richardson (19001975) British poet. "Take Heart, Illiterates" [1966] And in reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts. So it comes about that if anyone spends almost the whole day in reading, and by way of relaxation devotes the intervals to some thoughtless pastime, he gradually loses the capacity for thinking; just as the man who always rides, at last forgets how to walk. This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid. --Arthur Schopenhauer (17881860) German philosopher. "Religion and Other Essays: On Books and Reading" _Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer_, tr. T. Bailey Saunders [1851] Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. --attributed to George Seferis [Giorgios Stylianou Seferiades] (19001971) Greek poet, essayist, and diplomat who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963. - When my brother, Secretary at the Ministry of Ceremonial, was a young boy learning the Chinese classics, I was in the habit of listening with him and I became unusually proficient at understanding those passages that he found too difficult to grasp and memorize. Father, a most learned man, was always regretting that fact: 'Just my luck!' he would say. 'What a pity she was not born a man!' But then I gradually realized that people were saying 'It's bad enough when a man flaunts his Chinese learning; she will come to no good ... ' Her Majesty asked me to read with her here and there from the Collected Works of Po Chu-i, and, because she evinced a desire to know more about such things, to keep it secret we carefully chose times when the other women would not be present, and, from the summer before last, I started giving her informal lessons on the two volumes of 'New Ballads.' I hid this fact from others, as did Her Majesty. --Lady Murasaki Shikibu Japanese novelist and poet. (c.980c.1030) _The Diary of Lady Murasaki_ (1996 trans.) pp.57-8, in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds} _History in Quotations_ [2004]. Cohan & Major explain: Lady Murasaki Shikibu was the author of the masterpiece The Tale of Genji (c.1022), the first novel in world literature. The diary recounts her personal recollections of life at the imperial court in Kyoto at a time when it was considered inappropriate for a lady to read the Chinese classics. - Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's documents, so you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. --Socrates (470?399 B.C.) Greek philosopher. Attributed in _The Best Reading_ [G.P. Putnam, N.Y., 1872]. Much reading is like much eating,wholly useless without digestion. --Robert South (16341716) English theologian and author. Attributed in Alexander Ireland _The Book-Lover's Enchiridion: Thoughts on the Solace and Companionship of Books_, p. 97 [1883]. - Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. --Sir Richard Steele (16721729) Irish-born essayist and dramatist. In "The Tatler" [18 March 1710]. Pedantry proceeds from much reading and little understanding. --Sir Richard Steele (16721729) Irish-born essayist and dramatist. "The Tattler" [31 October 1710] - The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. --attibuted to Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. (Ralph Keyes in _The Quote Verifier_ [2006] claims that Abigail Van Buren may have been the first to say it. ) When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap people shouldn't read that stuff. --Mike Tyson (1966 ) American professional boxer and heavyweight champion. If the books which you read are your own, mark with a pen or pencil the most considerable things in them which you desire to remember. Then you may read that book the second time over with half the trouble, by your eye running over the paragraphs which your pencil has noted. It is but a very weak objection against this practice to say, 'I shall spoil my book'; for I persuade myself that you did not buy it as a bookseller, to sell again for gain, but as a scholar, to improve your mind by it; and if the mind be improved, your advantage is abundant, through your book yields less money to your executors. --Isaac Watts (16741748) English hymn writer. _Logic On the Right use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth_ [1724] When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. --Henny Youngman (19061998) English-born American stand-up comedian. Quoted in "Rocky Mountain News" [15 July 1994]. We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess. --Johann Georg Zimmermann (17281795) Swiss philosophical writer and physician. Attributed in Catherine Sinclair _The Kaleidoscope of Anecdotes and Aphorisms_, p. 71 [1851]. - You say you need another bookcase? Well, of course you need another bookcase. If you didn't need another bookcase, you wouldn't be worth knowing. --anon. - Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe. - ----- abibliophobia (noun) [κ-bi-bli-κ-'fo-bee-yκ] The morbid fear of running out of reading material. bibliophage [BIB-lee-uh-feyj], noun: An ardent reader; a bookworm. cursory (adj.) 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