“You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.”

— Ernest Hemingway, book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast

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American author and journalist 1899–1961

Шол МакЛохлин (JackSepticEye) (1990)

“About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”

Ernest Hemingway book Death in the Afternoon

Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 1

“Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.”

Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author

“I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?”

Bill Willingham (1956) American comics writer and artist

“One must know what is right and wrong and what is good and what is bad and what should be done and what should not be done. As well as manners, we must force our hearts to always be in good morals.”

Ananda Mahidol (1925–1946) eighth monarch of Siam from the Chakri dynasty as Rama VIII

Source: "Speech while conferring degree certificates to the graduating students of Chulalongkorn University" http://www.memohall.chula.ac.th/article/%E0%B8%81/ (13 April 1946)

“A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.”

Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) English author and academic

The Sunday Times, November 29, 1987.

“I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.”

Leonard Cohen book Beautiful Losers

Source: Beautiful Losers

“It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.”

Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

“What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?”

Delores Phillips (1950–2014) American writer

Source: The Darkest Child

“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”

Annie Barrows book The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.”

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