“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
Letter to Arthur Greeves (February 1932) — in They Stand Together: The Letters of C. S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves (1914–1963) (1979), p. 439
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Clive Staples Lewis272
Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963Related quotes
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Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
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“The only reason I read a book is because I cannot see and converse with the man who wrote it.”
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Speech in Kansas City (12 May 1905), PWW (The Papers of Woodrow Wilson) 16:99
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1900s
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
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“Never trust a man who reads only one book.”
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Source: Purity of Blood
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