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Never could I interest myself in a book if it were not the exact diet…
Quote byGeorge Moore · 1852–1933
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Confessions of a Young Man (1886), Ch. 2..
English (original)
Never could I interest myself in a book if it were not the exact diet my mind required at the time, or in the very immediate future. The mind asked, received, and digested. So much was assimilated, so much expelled; then, after a season, similar demands were made, the same processes were repeated out of sight, below consciousness, as is the case in a well-ordered stomach.
— George Moore
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