"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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"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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"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

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

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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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"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

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"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

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

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

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"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

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"My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity."

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"A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season."

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"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!"

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"When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing."

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"Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War."

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"Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose."

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"Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do."

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