“Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.”
Logan Pearsall Smith
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“Then I thought of reading—the nice and subtle happiness of reading. This was enough, this joy not dulled by Age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, life-long intoxication.”
Logan Pearsall Smith
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Germaine Greer
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Harold Bloom
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Christian Bauman
“No reading can be called a vice.”
Sarah Harrison