Reading is Fundamental

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“It does neither reader nor author justice. What you end up with is an impression of something having happened. Pale paragraphs that you can never fully recall. Silhouettes of broken sentences.” —

I want you to stop speed reading | Write for Your Life

My thoughts on speed reading and why, especially if you’re a writer, you should probably pack it in. 

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“What a blessing it is to love books as I love them, to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!” —Thomas Babington Macaulay (via beatricesank)

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When someone I know says they don't really read books

rorys-dragon:

Outside: Oh okay then.

Inside: Get out, friendship over!

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