Read — Tyler Thompson, LMFT, LPCC

Reading

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People say that life is the thing,
but I prefer reading.

—Logan Pearsall Smith

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I began my life as I shall no doubt end it, amidst books. I never tilled the soil or hunted for nests, but books were my birds and nests, my household pets, my barn and my countryside. The library was the world caught in a mirror.

—Jean-Paul Sartre

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Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

—Mary Schmich

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That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

—Jhumpa Lahiri

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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.

—Carl Sagan

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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

—James Baldwin

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The more that you read,
the more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
the more places you’ll go.

—Dr. Seuss

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You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

—Ray Bradbury

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When you ban books before you ban guns, you’ve admitted you’re more afraid of children learning than you are of children dying.

—Unknown

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There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book, or simply close it.