QUOTES WORTH SHARING

[rapa]

Here is a beloved quote from The History Boys  from the movie adaptation of Alan Bennett‘s 2004 play. This inspiring quote has been viewed nearly 400,000 times online:

"The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours."

This happens to me often.  How about you?

[Ioruach]

I rather like this one by the author, George R. R. Martin: “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”

[rapa]

Excellent, lorouch!  So true!!!!

[Lip Service]

Tough I like the original quote, I have not experienced often as others in this forum have.

There are a couple of related items that delight me when they occur.

The first is when you read about a custom or convention in some society and realize it also occurs in your world but takes a different form.

The other aspect is really the one that thrills me the most in reading is when a writer expresses a view or outlook that you also had thought about but did not go deep enough so was a bit vague in your mind, then comes the writer and exposes that idea in its full depth, you want shout yes yes yes that's it!!