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Joseph Brodsky

"It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything."

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"It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything."

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"People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book."

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"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."

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

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"By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas."

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"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."

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"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."

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"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."

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"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

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"I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please."

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"This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising."
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"Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse."
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"After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life."
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