Sunday, March 20, 2005

 

Maugham on Reading

W. Somerset Maugham:
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life.
It goes against the grain for me to quote something without chapter and verse, but I haven't been able to find the exact source of this quotation, one of my favorites.

A high-school classmate of mine, who later went on to Yale and a successful career in banking, once told me that he never read a book for pleasure. Without the refuge of reading, I'd be dead or in the looney bin.



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