“You read too much and understand too little.”
Robert Jordan The Shadow Rising
Moiraine Damodred
(15 September 1992)
Source: The Shadow Rising
“Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone's crossed the line.”
— Helen Oyeyemi, book Boy, Snow, Bird
Source: Boy, Snow, Bird
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Context: Much reading after a certain age diverts the mind from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theaters is apt to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life.
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