The Reader's Manifesto #13

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Looking Forward to 2012

It's been a kick ass year of quality reading (as opposed to quantity reading) and what's also memorable and noteworthy with 2011 is the overall progression of my professional, social, and personal status. Nothing's left out and no commitment being sacrificed in the corner by reading books. I shall never forget real places like Bohol, Tagum City, and Davao City. It's still hard to believe that I finally quit smoking this year. Next year, it's going to be a tough year with all the games to be released, movies to watch, places to visit, friends and family to personally connect with (as opposed to this shitty online/virtual networking), the 2012 end of the world prognosis/delusion, Pacquiao-Mayweather rubbermatch, and more books to read. Most of the time I will stick with my preferred reading category next year, the genre where I belong---the Adult Genre.

They say that the World will end in 2012 based on a belief by the Mayan Civilization. Well, nobody in this planet gets out alive and all I can say is bring it on, Apocalypse!
 

Educate your heart

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The Reader's Manifesto #12

"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies."
Friedrich Nietzsche

The Reader's Manifesto # 11

"I myself like easy books that put me to sleep immediately. But the normal reader who does not spend his day fighting with Kant or Hegel feels respected if there is a jujitsu with a novel, a resistance, a seduction. If the book says yes immediately, it is a whore."

Umberto Eco

The Reader's Manifesto # 10

From a bookplate reprinted in The Studio (circa 1900) by Ethel Larcombe.
I discovered it here.

The Reader's Manifesto # 9

"Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers."

Steven Spielberg

The Reader's Manifesto # 8

"I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke in me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive."

Malcolm X

The Reader's Manifesto # 7

"The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."

Alvin Toffler

The Reader's Manifesto # 6

"One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings."

Diogenes of Sinope

Who is Diogenes?

Reality + Desire

"I take my desires for reality because I believe in the reality of my desires."

Anonymous graffiti, Paris 1968


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Benjamin Disraeli

The Great Stimulus of Reading

"I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book."

Groucho Marx

Not a Fad Reader? Absolutely!

What Kind of Reader Are You? Your Result: Dedicated Reader   You are always trying to find the time to get back to your book. You are convinced that the world would be a much better place if only everyone read more.
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A Reader's Manifesto

"A man who has not disciplined himself to read has narrowed his freedom to choose between ideas. He is confined to what he hears. He is at the mercy of the propagandist. He has limited his freedom to think."

E.F. Wells