New Orts #79

July 20 MMXXV

No two persons ever read the same book.
— Edmund Wilson (1895-1972)

Where the reading of novels prevails as a habit, it occasions in time the entire destruction of the powers of the mind.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
— Salman Rushdie (1947- )

If we encounter a man of rare intellect we should ask him what books he reads.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson