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Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

Books are like truth serum– if you don’t read, you can’t figure out what’s real.
– Rodman Philbrick

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  3. remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not. – Rodman Philbrick
  4. Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours – Rodman Philbrick
  5. I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a muscle-”the more you use it, the stronger it gets. – Rodman Philbrick
  6. I’m thinking maybe letting the latches burn is the right idea. Let everything burn until there’s nothing left but ashes and cool rain. – Rodman Philbrick
  7. Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
  8. And tell them all about the books you’ve read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That’s an order. You can never read too many books. – PB Kerr
  9. Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. – Kira Hawke
  10. No serum can vhange who you are. Nor should you change. Genius or madness–it al depends on who’s telling the story. – Megan Shepherd
  11. Don’t try to figure out the whole race. Just figure out where to put your foot for the starting line. Just start. – Jeff Olson
  12. Figure out what makes you laugh, and do more of it. Figure out what makes you cry, and do less of it. – Mandy Hale
  13. And read-¦ read all the time-¦ read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. – David McCullough Jr
  14. Read books when you are free, read minds when you are’nt….but do read… – Rabindranath Tagore
  15. She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die. – Annie Dillard
  16. It was, in many ways, her dream bookshop. Not least because all the books had already been read.Books that had already been read were the best. – Katarina Bivald
  17. For peace read books, for success read books and take actions. – Amit Kalantri
  18. To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They’re also theirs. – Pamela Paul
  19. When you meet the real problems of life, think of the real lessons of life for the real lessons of life are in the real problems of life – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  20. I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it! – William Faulkner
  21. Truth is a matter of PerspectiveThere will be my truth and your truth and as Universal truth doesn’t exist. – George Orwell
  22. Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. – James E Faust
  23. God gave us His Word so we could know truth. His truth. The whole truth. And nothing but the truth. – Patty Houser
  24. If the truth gets in the way, I will remove it. But truth be told, removing the truth never removes the truth. – Craig D Lounsbrough
  25. You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock. – Harold Bloom
  26. I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I’m supposed to take when I one day leave this house. – Eve Ensler
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  28. Read. Read until your eyes are sore. Then read some more. – Lisa Bloom
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  32. Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply. – Richard Brookhiser
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  35. Books were a dependable pleasure. I read more then than I ever was able to read again until now when I am too old to work much and am mostly alone. – Wendell Berry
  36. Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. – Henry David Thoreau
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  40. Do not read books to escape reality. Read them to understand the reality you live in. – Eric Freh

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