Don’t you think it is wonderful how great literature allows you to sit in a comfy chair in the company of a great mind, and they will talk to you.
Poets, commentators, philosophers, writers from all ages, all there waiting to talk to you.
It’s the greatest gift.
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As of late I’ve forgotten how wonderful it is.. But then I read more for information than inspiration.
Bought three new books last week: Virginia Rocks! - a guide to geologic sites in the Old Dominion; Along Virginia’s Route 58 - true tales from beach to bluegrass; Blue Ridge Parkway - through time ~
Those will keep me in lore for months 
Varn
Level 8
Sep 21, 2019
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There is a passage in my memory that I swear was Galileo, but maybe Newton...or someone else...who expressed this sentiment so very well...and it is so frustrating that I cannot find it. I'm 99% sure it was Galileo, but since I've never been able to find it...maybe I am mistaken. I'm going to find that damned thing.
greyeyed123
Level 7
Sep 21, 2019
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Hot damn! After decades, I finally realized I was searching "Dialogue Concerning the Two New Sciences" and NOT "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems". Here it is...
"But surpassing all stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind was his who dreamed of finding means to communicate his deepest thoughts to any other person, though distant by mighty intervals of place and time! Of talking with those who are in India; of speaking to those who are not yet born and will not he born for a thousand or ten thousand years; and with what facility, by the different arrangements of twenty characters upon a page!"
A voracious reader since childhood, books transport me to different cultures, continents, lifestyles, ideas, people and families.
Reading increases my understanding, empathy and compassion.
LiterateHiker
Level 9
Sep 21, 2019
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Yes, and I really enjoy the intellectual stimulation, but I prefer to talk to real human beings.
Mofo1953
Level 9
Sep 21, 2019
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Varn:
I actually prefer to listen to them.. Watched half an attack on Madalyn Murray O’Hair by billy buckley jr. on YouTube this evening (while assuming ‘that’s’ why I’m home alone on a Saturday Night). Now capable of watching such folks from 50 years ago ‘on demand’ has given ‘books’ a serious run for my time & money 
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