Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that this is neither innocent nor praiseworthy. Of that lamentable company am I. Conversation after a time bores me, games tire me and my own thoughts, which we are told are the unfailing resource of a sensible man, have a tendency to run dry. Then I fly to my book as the opium-smoker to his pipe.
~W. Somerset Maugham, The Book-Bag
1 comment:
How true this is!In fact we're all addicts...no wonder my mother doesn't like that I'm reading so much :)
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