[7222aafdcf68cfe]

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

[meiraleal]

Wow. I came to say this and got a quote from a famous guy

[VoodooJuJu]

Cope.

You get out of books what you put into them. If you can't remember what you've read, it's because you didn't work to remember it (and that's okay). This quote is just cope for people to passively consume and feel good about it.

[namaria]

What are you suggesting, exactly, Ralph Waldo Emerson has to cope with literature consumption wise?

[muzani]

This was before the era of the internet though, when "book" was the closest thing to a wikipedia page or a reel.