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"We're not gonna misread our mandate."
Mitch McConnell
"We're not gonna misread our mandate."
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"In this eventful period the colony of New South Wales is already far advanced."
Charles Sturt
"In this eventful period the colony of New South Wales is already far advanced."
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"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why."
James Joyce
"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why."
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"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
Edith Wharton
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
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"Reading is important."
John Garfield
"Reading is important."
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"I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain."
Jackson Browne
"I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain."
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"I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed."
Janis Karpinski
"I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed."
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"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us."
W. H. Auden
"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us."
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"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it."
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"In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it."
Tim Berners Lee
"In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it."
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"And so we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don't provoke an increase in the bond rate and then offset a lot of the stimulus we've already got."
Franklin Raines
"And so we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don't provoke an increase in the bond rate and then offset a lot of the stimulus we've already got."
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"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."
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"Whatever you're ready for is ready for you."
Mark Victor Hansen
"Whatever you're ready for is ready for you."
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"As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other."
Mary Oliver
"As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other."
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"Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the readers expect."
Jonathan Kellerman
"Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the readers expect."
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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."
Robert Cormier
"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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"In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime."
Phyllis McGinley
"In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime."
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"We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading."
Thom Gunn
"We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading."
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"I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us."
Helen Dunmore
"I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us."
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"The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten."
Frederik Pohl
"The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten."
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"Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do."
Eduardo Chillida
"Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do."
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"I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in."
Sanford I. Weill
"I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in."
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"There were rumors I wasn't going to die. The whole cast was sitting around the table reading the script. I fell on the floor - I'm not kidding. I looked up at Katherine Heigl, and she was crying."
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
"There were rumors I wasn't going to die. The whole cast was sitting around the table reading the script. I fell on the floor - I'm not kidding. I looked up at Katherine Heigl, and she was crying."
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"Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own."
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"I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed."
Jack Vance
"I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed."
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"I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling."
Mark Millar
"I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling."
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"I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!"
Lewis Carroll
"I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!"
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"Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread."
Francois Mauriac
"Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread."
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"I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child."
Goh Chok Tong
"I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child."
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"I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years."
Marilyn Hacker
"I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years."
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"I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed."
Terri Windling
"I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed."
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"The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates."
George Jackson
"The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates."
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"Learn as much by writing as by reading."
Lord Acton
"Learn as much by writing as by reading."
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"When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write."
Norman Mailer
"When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write."
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"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."
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"When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't."
Steven Soderbergh
"When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't."
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"For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States."
Bill Sienkiewicz
"For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States."
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"Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading."
M. H. Abrams
"Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading."
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"The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat."
George Byron
"The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat."
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"It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects."
Joyce Maynard
"It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects."
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"If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves."
Don Marquis
"If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves."
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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."
Dorothy Day
"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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"I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it."
Theodore Sturgeon
"I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it."
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"Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story."
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story."
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"Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them."
Lord Chesterfield
"Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them."
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"I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot."
J. D. Salinger
"I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot."
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"From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not."
Diane Wakoski
"From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not."
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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."
Anthony Weiner
"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 began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time."
Octavia Butler
"I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time."
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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."
Salman Rushdie
"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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