“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.”
Albert Einstein
“If you only read books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
Haruki Murakumi
“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the one that makes you think.”
Harper Lee
I read widely, deeply, broadly, always more than one book at a time. There is always a pile beside the bed, and another by my favourite armchair. There are notebooks to hand as well, ready for me to jot down a pithy or thought provoking quote. Usually I take note of book and page, but at times, in a hurry, I have reduced the book title to an acronym, and, months later, I have no idea where the quote came from…don’t do that if you plan to refer back or to acknowledge the source…
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