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If You Are Reading In Order To Become A Better Reader, You Cannot Read Just Any Book Or Article. You Will Not Improve As A Reader If All You Read Are Books That Are Well Within Your Capacity. You Must Tackle Books That Are Beyond You, Or, As We Have Said, Books That Are Over Your Head. Only Books Of That Sort Will Make You Stretch Your Mind. And Unless You Stretch, You Will Not Learn.

I Wonder If Most People Ever Ask Themselves Why Love Is Connected With Reproduction. And If They Do Ask Themselves About This, I Wonder What Answer They Give.

Sin Is Not Only Manifested In Certain Acts That Are Forbidden By Divine Command. Sin Also Appears In Attitudes And Dispositions And Feelings. Lust And Hate Are Sins As Well As Adultery And Murder. And, In The Traditional Christian View, Despair And Chronic Boredom - Unaccompanied By Any Vicious Act - Are Serious Sins. They Are Expressions Of Man's Separation From God, As The Ultimate Good, Meaning, And End Of Human Existence.

Let Me Roughly Divide Books Into Those Which Compete With The Movies And Those With Which The Movies Cannot Compete. They Are The Books That Can Elevate Or Instruct. If They Are Fine Works Of Fiction, They Can Deepen Your Appreciation Of Human Life. If They Are Serious Works Of Nonfiction, They Can Inform Or Enlighten You.

The Truly Great Books Are The Few Books That Are Over Everybody's Head All Of The Time.