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Reading Quotes
"From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment."
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"I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan."
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"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."
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"There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55."
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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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"Luckily, I'm a governor - so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do."
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"I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium."
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"It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it."
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"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider."
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"What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come."
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"Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are pictures of me in my drawers."
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"I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way."
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"You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else."
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"Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery."
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"I have been reading scripts, going to auditions and looking for the right opportunities."
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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 started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is - a protein digests in a different rate of speed than a carbohydrate."
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"The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean."
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"Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start."
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"The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program."
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"As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for."
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"Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity-civilization's backbone-that tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and see what the horizon has to offer. Thus they represent the yearning to go beyond, to explore. Yet they are also human-sized . . ."
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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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"I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget."
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"You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice."
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"I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom."
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"I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading."
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"The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten."
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"I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web."
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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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"When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us."
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"The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story."
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"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it."
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"The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable."
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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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