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Reading Quotes
"What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come."
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"If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds."
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"I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems."
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"As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for."
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"It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic."
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"The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author."
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"I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why."
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"Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery."
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"That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before."
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"In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read."
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"I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining."
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"I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget."
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"The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points."
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"I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other."
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"And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing."
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"The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination."
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"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."
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"You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice."
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"What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it."
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"I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book."
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"I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's."
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"One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer."
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"Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately."
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"Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish."
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"If you were to climb up on your desk, walk around behind your monitor and lean way over so you could see the screen, you'd be able to read "Wordplay" just as easily as you could sitting in your chair."
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"I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch."
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"I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it."
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"I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library."
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"Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread."
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"He looked like such a Republican. He dressed like Pee-Wee Herman. But had I known what he had done when I was reading about him, I might have thought different."
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"German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case."
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"What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone."
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"Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?"
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"An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers."
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"A finished product is one that has already seen its better days."
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"With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how."
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"I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!"
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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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"Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best."
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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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"Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen."
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"But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube."
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