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In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
– Mortimer J Adler

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  4. The student can read as fast as his mind will let him, not as slow as his eyes make him. – Mortimer J Adler
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  10. Enlightenment is achieved only when, in addition to knowing what an author says, you know what he means and why he says it. – Mortimer J Adler
  11. I took only one suitcase, and a cosmetics case for medicines but I was worried about books. Solitude is all right with books, awful without. – Martha Gellhorn
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  28. The first thing I understand is pain. – Ellis Adler
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  38. But you are, you know, you were, the nearest thing to a real story to happen in my life – Renata Adler
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