Joshua Foer Quotes
We Read And Read And Read, And We Forget And Forget And Forget. So Why Do We Bother? Michel De Montaigne Expressed The Dilemma Of Extensive Reading In The Sixteenth Century: "I Leaf Through Books, I Do Not Study Them," He Wrote. "What I Retain Of Them Is Something I No Longer Recognize As Anyone Else's. It Is Only The Material From Which My Judgment Has Profited, And The Thoughts And Ideas With Which It Has Become Imbued; The Author, The Place, The Words, And Other Circumstances, I Immediately Forget.
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