"We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it."

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"We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it."

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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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"I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian."

Juan Cole, American Educator

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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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"The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life."

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"The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event."

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"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing.""

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"I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."

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"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be."

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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."

"I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian."

"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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"The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness."

"I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early."

"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know."

"As you make your bed, so you must lie in it."

"Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed."

"The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life."

"The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event."

"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing.""

"I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."

"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be."