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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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"I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child."
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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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"To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes was indeed an intellectual treat."
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"One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way."
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"For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry."
Reading
"Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time."
Time
"I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too."
Living
"The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives."
Poetry
"What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up."
Creativity
"Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read."
People
"On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place."
Fact
"The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with."
Being
"We simply have not kept in touch with poetry."
Poetry
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