Reading
“I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.”
William Lyon Phelps
“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
A quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
So I advocate reading books in cluster – the author can be the clustering factor, it can be the topic, it can be the historical period – but you really get into a person’s mind if you re-read everything they’ve done within the span of a few weeks or months, and then watch them on YouTube, and just try to think about and write out notes, “What am I ... See more
Stuart Patience • Tyler Cowen on Reading Fast, Reading Well, and Reading Widely
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