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In the coveted dusk between crisis and spree, reclaimed silence unfolds truths buried in the thickness of braided CG beauty--the heartbeat still palpable tighter than proximity lost.
Author:
Mia Iliopoulos
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Being ready for summer isn't just packing swim trunks; it's unfolding the book you claimed you'd finish in the sun's embrace.
Author:
Lily Rowan
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So many books, so little time.
Author:
Frank Zappa
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Books hold the magic of tapping into different worlds, allowing us to escape reality for a little while.
Author:
Rachel Smith
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Between the pages of a book lies a world waiting to be discovered
Author:
Sarah Johnson
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Sometimes the best adventures are found within the pages of a book.
Author:
Emily Johnson
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A good book is a bridge to countless worlds waiting to be explored.
Author:
Emily Parker
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The greatest adventures are found within the pages of a book, where each turn leads to a new world waiting to be discovered.
Author:
Sophia Rodriguez
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The greatest adventures are often found in the pages of a book.
Author:
Lily Evans
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Within the pages of a book, you can become anyone, go anywhere, and do anything.
Author:
Emma Rhodes
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A book is a magic portal that transports us into different worlds and ignites our imagination
Author:
Sarah Johnson
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Life's greatest adventures can be found within the pages of a book.
Author:
Lily Chen
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Losing yourself in a novel is a good way to find yourself
Author:
Sophia Stevens
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In the silent pages of a book, one can find the loud echoes of the soul.
Author:
Lily Harrison
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The greatest adventures are those found within the pages of a book.
Author:
Emily Clarke
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Losing yourself in the depth of a good book is finding yourself in new perspectives.
Author:
Catherine Li
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The greatest adventures are often found within the pages of a book, where the limitless landscapes of the mind unfold in boundless wonder.
Author:
Sophia Chang
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The greatest and most fulfilling adventures can often be found within the pages of a book.
Author:
Lily Collins
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Nourish your mind with books like you nourish your body with food.
Author:
Sophia Martinez
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A library is a place where you can time travel without leaving your chair.
Author:
Emma Watson
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Sometimes the greatest adventures are found within the pages of a book, where imagination knows no boundaries.
Author:
Melanie Johnson
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Sometimes the greatest adventures are found within the pages of a book
Author:
Samantha Reid
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Sometimes the greatest adventures can be found in the pages of a book.
Author:
Emily Roberts
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Nourish your mind with books, your heart with kindness, and your spirit with adventure.
Author:
Harper Collins
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Sometimes the greatest adventure is found within the pages of a book.
Author:
Amelia Knight
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Between the pages of a book is a wonderful world waiting to be explored.
Author:
Sophia Lee
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A book is the only treasure where rough diamonds are also hidden within its pages
Author:
Stephanie Brown
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The greatest adventures are found in the pages of a book, where the imagination knows no bounds.
Author:
Sophia Cruz
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The greatest adventures are often found in the pages of a book, waiting to be discovered by those brave enough to turn them.
Author:
Sophia Hall
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Books are like passports to endless adventures waiting to be explored.
Author:
Samantha Greene
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Between the pages of a book is where the mind takes flight and the soul finds solace.
Author:
Sophia Moore
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Every page turned is a new adventure awaiting your discovery.
Author:
Amelia Johnson
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A book is a magic portal that can transport you to distant lands and ignite your imagination
Author:
Sophia Martinez
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The world is a vast library, and every book we read reveals a new chapter of our own story.
Author:
Alex Carter
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Life's greatest adventures are found in the pages of a well-worn book.
Author:
Sophia Williams
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Sometimes the greatest adventures are those found within the pages of a book.
Author:
Samantha Smith
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A book is a magical gateway to different worlds, where imagination and knowledge collide.
Author:
Sarah Johnson
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Sometimes the greatest adventures are found within the pages of a book.
Author:
Gabriela Moore
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Life's greatest adventures are hidden within the pages of a book, waiting to be discovered.
Author:
Olivia Peterson
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Within the pages of a book, you'll find a whole new world waiting to be explored.
Author:
Jasmine Davis
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I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading.
Author:
John Zorn
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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.
Author:
Rachel Zoe
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When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.
Author:
Sarah Zettel
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I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.
Author:
Sarah Zettel
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When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
Author:
Henny Youngman
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Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.
Author:
Thom Yorke
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I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
Author:
Steven Wright
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.
Author:
Mary Wortley
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
Author:
John Wooden
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I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.
Author:
Roy Wood
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I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can bring fresh new material into the field is if people go out and buy it.
Author:
Terri Windling
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I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
Author:
Walter Williams
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It's exciting to do something like this because usually what happens in theater is that, after the first or second reading of a play, it falls apart completely and the rehearsal process is such that you begin to pick up the pieces and put it back together again.
Author:
Treat Williams
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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.
Author:
John Williams
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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Author:
Thornton Wilder
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.
Author:
Patrick White
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Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.
Author:
Paul Westerberg
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At the same time, reading an action script... It makes me wonder. Was The Matrix a good script? I don't know.
Author:
Shane West
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I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom.
Author:
Samuel West
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I'm not very good at relaxing. Reading's the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don't think there's a moment of the day when I wouldn't be if I was left alone.
Author:
Samuel West
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Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them.
Author:
Randy West
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When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
Author:
Irvine Welsh
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All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.
Author:
Robert Welch
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
Author:
Lalla Ward
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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.
Author:
Diane Wakoski
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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.
Author:
Diane Wakoski
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Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.
Author:
Joan Vinge
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I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.
Author:
Tim Vine
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I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first.
Author:
Conrad Veidt
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I don't want little kids reading my comics.
Author:
Jhonen Vasquez
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I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
Author:
Jack Vance
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There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.
Author:
Carrie Underwood
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Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.
Author:
Mike Tyson
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It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.
Author:
Mike Tyson
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Author:
Mark Twain
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In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
Author:
Harry Truman
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I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.
Author:
Pierre Trudeau
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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.
Author:
Charlie Trotter
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Author:
G. Trevelyan
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I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.
Author:
Goh Tong
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I enjoyed reading as a child.
Author:
Goh Tong
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There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.
Author:
Michael Tippett
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I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.
Author:
Meg Tilly
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it's an easy jump for me, because I understand what it's all about.
Author:
Lawrence Taylor
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The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.
Author:
Donna Tartt
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I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
Author:
John Synge
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Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
Author:
William Styron
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A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
Author:
William Styron
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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.
Author:
Theodore Sturgeon
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An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.
Author:
Hudson Stuck
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
Author:
Igor Stravinsky
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I remember nearly having a fit of the giggles during the reading because dear Daniel was SO respectful and serious and I was finding the whole situation funny because I was speaking to his profile.
Author:
Madeleine Stowe
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I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.
Author:
Rex Stout
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I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself.
Author:
Michael Stipe
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I've been reading horror since I was five years old.
Author:
George Stephen
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When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics.
Author:
George Stephen
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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
Author:
Stendhal
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A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
Author:
Gloria Steinem
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Hard writing makes easy reading.
Author:
Wallace Stegner
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Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.
Author:
Richard Steele
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As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.
Author:
Norman Spinrad
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And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.
Author:
Margaret Spellings
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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.
Author:
Nicholas Sparks
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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.
Author:
Suzanne Somers
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I'm still reading some scripts and I model as well, so I'm still doing that. But I don't want to do like just anything so we're being really selective about the stuff I'll do.
Author:
Kim Smith
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The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.
Author:
Gerrit Smith
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Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.
Author:
Jane Smiley
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If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb.
Author:
Louise Slaughter
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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
Author:
B. Skinner
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
Author:
Edith Sitwell
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Author:
Edith Sitwell
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Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.
Author:
Shel Silverstein
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But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.
Author:
Bill Sienkiewicz
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You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.
Author:
Richard Sheridan
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I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.
Author:
Robert Sheckley
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
Author:
George Shaw
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I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.
Author:
William Shatner
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I try to deal with my serious reading before work.
Author:
Donna Shalala
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Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.
Author:
Charles Scribner, Jr.
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I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.
Author:
Bruce Schneier
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Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.
Author:
Mary Schmich
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The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.
Author:
Serge Schmemann
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Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.
Author:
Marilyn Savant
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Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.
Author:
Marilyn Savant
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Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the '40s and '50s.
Author:
Fred Savage
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The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.
Author:
Nathalie Sarraute
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I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.
Author:
Jose Saramago
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I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where's my girlfriend?
Author:
Adam Sandler
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
Author:
R. Salvatore
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
Author:
R. Salvatore
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I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.
Author:
Fred Saberhagen
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It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written.
Author:
Joseph Rutherford
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Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
Author:
Babe Ruth
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When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do.
Author:
Kurt Russell
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A book worth reading is worth buying.
Author:
John Ruskin
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Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.
Author:
Geoffrey Rush
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A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
Author:
Will Rogers
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There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Author:
Will Rogers
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I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.
Author:
Edward Robinson
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I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.
Author:
Rihanna
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The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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I have been reading scripts, going to auditions and looking for the right opportunities.
Author:
Kevin Richardson
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Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.
Author:
Anne Rice
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Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
Author:
Jean Rhys
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I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.
Author:
Keanu Reeves
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Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.
Author:
Robert Reed
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The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.
Author:
Ron Reagan
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A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.
Author:
Robert Rauschenberg
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I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.
Author:
Harold Ramis
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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
Author:
Ramakrishna
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
Author:
Marcus Quintilian
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I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.
Author:
Francis Quarles
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I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!
Author:
Philip Pullman
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If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
Author:
Manuel Puig
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One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
Author:
Manuel Puig
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
Author:
Manuel Puig
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The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.
Author:
Reynolds Price
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My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.
Author:
Jack Prelutsky
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
Author:
Jack Prelutsky
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We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.
Author:
Lawrence Powell
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Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed.
Author:
Jerry Pournelle
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Author:
Ezra Pound
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All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.
Author:
Chaim Potok
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Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory.
Author:
Chaim Potok
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I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.
Author:
Chaim Potok
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Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.
Author:
Sydney Pollack
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A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.
Author:
Frederik Pohl
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Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).
Author:
Frederik Pohl
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The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.
Author:
Frederik Pohl
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I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.
Author:
Daniel Pinkwater
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You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.
Author:
William Phelps
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I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.
Author:
Thomas Perry
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Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.
Author:
Thomas Perry
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Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
Author:
William Penn
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The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.
Author:
Amanda Peet
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Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
Author:
Luciano Pavarotti
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It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.
Author:
Rod Parsley
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'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.
Author:
Robert Parker
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I recommend the art of slow reading.
Author:
Amos Oz
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Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.
Author:
Amos Oz
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I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.
Author:
Wilfred Owen
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After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.
Author:
Wilfred Owen
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The fat lady hasn't sung yet. We'll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading.
Author:
Bobby Orr
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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.
Author:
Mary Oliver
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I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.
Author:
Sharon Olds
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It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
Author:
Gary Oldman
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Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
Author:
Ben Okri
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By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.
Author:
Kenzaburo Oe
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Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.
Author:
Paul Nurse
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What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist.
Author:
Douglass North
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Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.
Author:
Bob Ney
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Author:
Pablo Neruda
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In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly.
Author:
Liam Neeson
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My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends.
Author:
Steve Nash
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I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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V. Naipaul
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
Author:
V. Naipaul
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I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.
Author:
Vladimir Nabokov
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Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.
Author:
Gilbert Murray
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I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.
Author:
Bill Murray
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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Author:
Edvard Munch
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I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.
Author:
Max Muller
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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
Author:
Christopher Morley
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The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
Author:
Robert Morgan
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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.
Author:
Jeffrey Morgan
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A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.
Author:
Roger Moore
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I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out.
Author:
Rick Moody
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My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert.
Author:
Rick Moody
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I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
Author:
Charles Montesquieu
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Author:
Mary Montagu
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
Author:
Moliere
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I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.
Author:
Spike Milligan
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People looking at advertisements or reading their local newspapers would have had no idea that what they were reading was bought and paid for with their tax dollars.
Author:
George Miller
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I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.
Author:
Breckin Meyer
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I love comics. All I've been doing is reading every day, sitting in the house. Because I've not been feeling too good, so I've been reading and reading.
Author:
Jason Mewes
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Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my husband, my friends or my dog, I am watching Court TV.
Author:
Debra Messing
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By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Author:
Thomas Merton
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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.
Author:
James Meade
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If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.
Author:
Roger McGough
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In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.
Author:
Phyllis McGinley
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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.
Author:
John McGahern
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I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.
Author:
John McGahern
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A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot.
Author:
John McCarthy
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I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something.
Author:
Paul Mazursky
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Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do.
Author:
Chris Matthews
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The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice.
Author:
Marlee Matlin
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From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
Author:
Groucho Marx
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The scanning of barcodes, or the reading of RFID transponders, generates data that is used in a software package to provide management or control information.
Author:
Mike Marsh
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I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in.
Author:
Jason Marsden
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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.
Author:
Don Marquis
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I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.
Author:
Patrick Marber
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The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Author:
Katherine Mansfield
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Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Author:
Horace Mann
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In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.
Author:
Stephane Mallarme
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You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.
Author:
Maimonides
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Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.
Author:
Margaret Mahy
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I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.
Author:
Margaret Mahy
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When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared.
Author:
Margaret Mahy
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I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.
Author:
Naguib Mahfouz
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I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.
Author:
Naguib Mahfouz
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My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.
Author:
Naguib Mahfouz
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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
Author:
James Madison
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Focusing on the way I look makes me uncomfortable. I try to focus on the way I feel - I know what makes me feel better about myself. Reading my child a story makes me feel great, doing my hair nicely doesn't.
Author:
Elle Macpherson
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I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature. I like emotions. I like working with other actors.
Author:
Elle Macpherson
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I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.
Author:
Mary MacLane
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Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.
Author:
Hugh Mackay
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Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.
Author:
Hugh Mackay
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I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'
Author:
Peter Lynch
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When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.
Author:
Lance Loud
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I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.
Author:
Rebecca Loos
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I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting.
Author:
John Long
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It was a show where you were given a quote out of current events and you had to identify who said it. I was reading eight newspapers a day and had compiled a file of about 300 quotes. I really had to do my research. The White House press didn't have to bone up on any of it.
Author:
June Lockhart
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Author:
John Locke
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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
Author:
John Locke
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All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself.
Author:
Penelope Lively
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
Author:
C. Lewis
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
Author:
C. Lewis
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I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
Author:
Oscar Levant
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I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
Author:
Oscar Levant
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When I'm reading material, if I'm a little bit afraid of a part and I'm willing to admit that to myself, then I'll do it, definitely. If I'm worried about being able to do it, to get it - I absolutely just love it.
Author:
Jack Lemon
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Yeah, that came out of a reading. It was great. It's such a fun crew to be with, and we all went out the night before and that really encouraged us to go out and get drunk.
Author:
John Leguizamo
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The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
Author:
Vernon Lee
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I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room.
Author:
Joshua Lederberg
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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Author:
Stanislaw Lec
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To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.
Author:
Robert Laughlin
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I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it.
Author:
James Laughlin
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I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian.
Author:
James Laughlin
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I like reading my bible, I like bible studies where I get together with others and talk about the word of God and how it relates to us and how we can change to become more like him.
Author:
Bernhard Langer
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The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.
Author:
Christian Lange
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What is reading, but silent conversation.
Author:
Charles Lamb
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I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them.
Author:
Jhumpa Lahiri
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Your baby only needs a lot of light at night if he's reading or he's entertaining guests.
Author:
Lawrence Kutner
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I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
Author:
Charles Kuralt
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Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.
Author:
John Kricfalusi
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I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.
Author:
Dean Koontz
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To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.
Author:
Zoltan Kodaly
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My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.
Author:
Alicia Keys
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Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
Author:
Thomas Kempis
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You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other reading.
Author:
Harvey Keitel
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I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications. Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting.
Author:
Casey Kasum
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I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.
Author:
Casey Kasem
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My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.
Author:
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.
Author:
Donald Kagan
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I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment.
Author:
Raul Julia
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I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals.
Author:
Wynonna Judd
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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.
Author:
James Joyce
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I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to.
Author:
Norah Jones
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From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.
Author:
Mary Jones
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Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.
Author:
James Jones
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One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.
Author:
Franklin Jones
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I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.
Author:
Chuck Jones
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
Author:
Sarah Jewett
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I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
Author:
Joan Jett
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If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.
Author:
Bruce Jenner
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If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.
Author:
Bruce Jenner
