"I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom."

Reading, Boredom

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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Read for the sake of using others knowledge to find your own inner guidance."

Matthew Donnelly, American Author

Reading, Knowledge, Guidance, Intuition

"I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in."

Sanford I. Weill, American Businessman

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"Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist

Reading, Writing, Meaning, Interpretation

"Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition."

A. R. Ammons, American Poet

Reading, Poetry, Class, First, Poems

"You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread."

Heinz Guderian, German Soldier

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"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Reading, Happiness, Today, Wisdom, Truth

"Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books."

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

Reading, Books, Intellect, Judgment, Humor

"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second."

John Irving, American Novelist

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"All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job."

Harvey Milk, American Politician

Reading, Being, Country, Gay, Job

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"I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle."

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"The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough."

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"Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death."

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"True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary."

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"It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man."

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"He only profits from praise who values criticism."

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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

"Read for the sake of using others knowledge to find your own inner guidance."

"I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in."

"Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition."

"You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread."

"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"

"Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books."

"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second."

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"Human misery is too great for men to do without faith."

"When words leave off, music begins."

"Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings."

"I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle."

"The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough."

"Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death."

"I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom."

"True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary."

"It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man."

"He only profits from praise who values criticism."