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one of my college English professors would say 'reading makes your soul grow big,' something he said he heard from a friends dad. it's stuck with me.
by mrmetanoia 2y ago
one of my college English professors would say 'reading makes your soul grow big,' something he said he heard from a friends dad. it's stuck with me.
- owlninja 2y ago"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me"
- riffraff 2y agoThis is wonderful, I often regret having completely forgotten the content of some books, but this makes me feel less bad about it. If you came up with this thank you dear internet person!
- localhost8000 2y agoIf you want to learn about the provenance: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/06/20/books/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/06/20/books/
- riffraff 2y agoAppreciated!
- jaggederest 2y agoThis came up recently on HN, in terms of "kinds of memory" - there are different forms of memory, and we have pretty good evidence that some of them persist regardless of conscious recall. Rest assured that even if you have poor recall of them they continue to shape who you are and how you behave.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 2y agoLovely quote! Emerson.
- bufordtwain 2y agoKurt Vonnegut wrote something similar about doing art of any kind.