So Says Frederick Douglass

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

-Frederick Douglass, author of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

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So Says Jorge Luis Borges

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

-Jorge Luis Borges, author of The Book of Imaginary Beings

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So Says Albert Einstein

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

-Albert Einstein, author of Relativity: the special and general theory, Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein’s letters to and from children, and The World As I See It

So Says Jan Karon

As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books!

-Jan Karon, author of At Home in Mitford and Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

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So Says Arthur Conan Doyle

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

-Arthur Conan Doyle, author of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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So Says Stéphane Mallarmé

Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.

-Stéphane Mallarmé, author of The Afternoon of a Faun

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So Says Dr. Seuss

Be awesome! Be a book nut!

-Dr. Seuss, author of Green Eggs and Ham, The Sneetches, and Oh the Places You’ll Go

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So Says J.K. Rowling

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

-J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, A Casual Vacancy, and The Cuckoo’s Calling

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So Says Alain de Botton

Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

-Alain de Botton, author of The News: a user’s manual

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So Says Anne Fadiman

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.

-Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down

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