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"I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness."
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"Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others."
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"Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong."
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"She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me."
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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."
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"When you read a book put all of your effort into staying present and focus your energy towards the comprehension of each and every word and how you can apply it into your daily life."
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"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."
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"Read in order to live."
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"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."
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"When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."
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"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."
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"Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War."
War
"All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want."
Want
"Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both."
Home
"Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!"
Language
"I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's."
Life
"Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose."
Ambition
"The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head."
Love
"I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?"
Life
"Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do."
People
"I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness."
Reading
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