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->''Alleypal's ball isn't until tonight, so you burn up the rest of the afternoon quietly reading, which you do because as a cool teen you just LOVE reading and not because as the author of books I'm desperately trying to make reading seem super cool, WHICH IT IS ANYWAY.''

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->''Alleypal's ball isn't until tonight, so you burn up the rest of the afternoon quietly reading, which you do because as a cool teen you just LOVE reading and [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial not because as the author of books I'm desperately trying to make reading seem super cool, cool]], WHICH IT IS ANYWAY.''
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-> ''Books are fun, Cricket. They're full of atmosphere, amazin' new worlds, fascinatin' characters, and sometimes, they kiss."''

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-> ''Books ''"Books are fun, Cricket. They're full of atmosphere, amazin' new worlds, fascinatin' characters, and sometimes, they kiss."''
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-> ''Books are fun, Cricket. They're full of atmosphere, amazin' new worlds, fascinatin' characters, and sometimes, they kiss."''
-->--'''Tilly Green''', ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'', "Quiet Please"
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-> ''"The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Without books as our anchors we are cast adrift; neither teaching, nor learning. They are windows on the past, mirrors on the present, and prisms reflecting all possible futures. Books are lighthouses erected in the dark sea of time."''
-->--'''Jeffrey Robbins''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''
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->''Alleypal's ball isn't until tonight, so you burn up the rest of the afternoon quietly reading, which you do because as a cool teen you just LOVE reading and not because as the author of books I'm desperately trying to make reading seem super cool, WHICH IT IS ANYWAY''

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->''Alleypal's ball isn't until tonight, so you burn up the rest of the afternoon quietly reading, which you do because as a cool teen you just LOVE reading and not because as the author of books I'm desperately trying to make reading seem super cool, WHICH IT IS ANYWAY''ANYWAY.''
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->''Alleypal's ball isn't until tonight, so you burn up the rest of the afternoon quietly reading, which you do because as a cool teen you just LOVE reading and not because as the author of books I'm desperately trying to make reading seem super cool, WHICH IT IS ANYWAY''
-->--''Literature/RomeoAndOrJuliet''
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->''"Remember, kids: nobody can imprison you for reading!"''
-->--'''Mermaid Man''', ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''
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->''"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island."''
-->--'''Creator/WaltDisney'''

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-->-- '''Professor Henry Jones''', ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''

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-->-- '''Professor Henry Jones''', ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''



-->--''[[Creator/DrSeuss I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!]]''

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-->--''[[Creator/DrSeuss I -->-- '''Creator/DrSeuss''', ''I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!]]''Shut!''

->''"I got my break, big break, when I was 5 years old. And it's taken me more than 70 years to realize it. You see, at 5, I learned to read. It's that simple, and it's that profound. I left school at 13, I didn't have a formal education, and I believe I would not be standing here tonight without the books, the plays, the scripts."''
-->-- '''Creator/SeanConnery''', 34th AFI Lifetime Achievement Award acceptance speech
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->''The more that you read, the more things you will know''
->''The more that you learn, the more places you'll go''
->''If you read with your eyes shut, you're likely to find''
->''That the place where you're going is far, far behind''
->''So, that's why I tell you to keep your eyes wide''
->''Keep them wide open, at least on one side''
-->--''[[Creator/DrSeuss I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!]]''
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'''Professor Henry Jones:''' It tells me that [[ThoseWackyNazis goose-stepping morons like yourself]] should try ''reading'' books instead of ''[[BookBurning burning]]'' them!"''

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'''Professor Henry Jones:''' It tells me that [[ThoseWackyNazis goose-stepping morons like yourself]] should try ''reading'' books instead of ''[[BookBurning burning]]'' them!"''them!
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->'''Colonel Vogel:''' What is in the book? That miserable little diary of yours. ''[Slaps Henry with his glove]'' We have the map. The book is useless. And yet you come all the way back to Berlin to get it. Why. ''[Slap]'' What are you hiding? ''[Slap]'' What does the diary tell you that it does not tell us?\\
''[Vogel goes to slap Henry again, but Henry grabs his wrist before he can do so and glares right into his eyes]''\\
'''Professor Henry Jones:''' It tells me that [[ThoseWackyNazis goose-stepping morons like yourself]] should try ''reading'' books instead of ''[[BookBurning burning]]'' them!"''
-->-- '''Professor Henry Jones''', ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''
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->''"To have access to literature, world literature, was to escape the prison of national vanity, of philistinism, of compulsory provincialism, of inane schooling, of imperfect destinies and bad luck. Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom...Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom."''
-->-- '''[[https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/10/22/susan-sontag-on-literature-and-freedom/ Susan Sontag]]'''

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-->-- '''Series/ReadingRainbow'''

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-->-- '''Series/ReadingRainbow'''
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-> ''Having fun isn't hard''\\
''When you've got a library card!''
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}''
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-> '''Ragnar''': It's a weak kind of magic.\\
'''Guthrum''': No, no, you are wrong. This is... this is words without sound. This is voices without people. I'm going to learn how to use this magic.
-->-- ''TheLastKingdom'', "Episode 7"
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->''"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only once."''
-->-- '''Jojen Reed''', ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''

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->'''Lisa:''' A library! ... No, I can't... that's the old, nerdy Lisa.
->'''Literature/PippiLongstocking:''' ''(magically appears)'' Lisa, read about my adventures in the South Seas, and make me live again!
->'''Eustace (from ''Magazine/TheNewYorker''):''' We've got periodicals on microfiche...
->'''Literature/{{Alice|InWonderland}}:''' ''(nervously)'' Won't you join our tea party? It would be ever so...
->''(Mad Hatter pulls a gun and grabs Alice)''
->'''Alice:''' Don't do it, Lisa. It's a trap! Run! Run!

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->'''Lisa:''' A library! ... No, I can't... that's the old, nerdy Lisa.
->'''Literature/PippiLongstocking:'''
Lisa.\\
'''Literature/PippiLongstocking:'''
''(magically appears)'' Lisa, read about my adventures in the South Seas, and make me live again!
->'''Eustace
again!\\
'''Eustace
(from ''Magazine/TheNewYorker''):''' We've got periodicals on microfiche...
->'''Literature/{{Alice|InWonderland}}:'''
microfiche...\\
'''Literature/{{Alice|InWonderland}}:'''
''(nervously)'' Won't you join our tea party? It would be ever so...
->''(Mad
so...\\
''(Mad
Hatter pulls a gun and grabs Alice)''
->'''Alice:'''
Alice)''\\
'''Alice:'''
Don't do it, Lisa. It's a trap! Run! Run!



->''"Take a look, it's in a book''
->''A Reading Rainbow!"''

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->''"Take a look, it's in a book''
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->'''''Today's Lesson:''' Reading [[StylisticSuck Ir Berry Impertant]]''
-->--- '''CreditsGag''', ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures''
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->''"Take a look, it's in a book''
->''A Reading Rainbow!"''
-->-- '''Series/ReadingRainbow'''
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->'''Eustace (from The New Yorker):''' We've got periodicals on microfiche...

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->'''Eustace (from The New Yorker):''' ''Magazine/TheNewYorker''):''' We've got periodicals on microfiche...

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->'''Eustace (from The Newyorker):''' We've got periodicals on microfiche...

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->'''Eustace (from The Newyorker):''' New Yorker):''' We've got periodicals on microfiche...
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->'''Lisa:''' A library! ... No, I can't... that's the old, nerdy Lisa.
->'''Literature/PippiLongstocking:''' ''(magically appears)'' Lisa, read about my adventures in the South Seas, and make me live again!
->'''Eustace (from The Newyorker):''' We've got periodicals on microfiche...
->'''Literature/{{Alice|InWonderland}}:''' ''(nervously)'' Won't you join our tea party? It would be ever so...
->''(Mad Hatter pulls a gun and grabs Alice)''
->'''Alice:''' Don't do it, Lisa. It's a trap! Run! Run!
--> -- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "Summer of 4 Ft. 2"
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