"because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could..."
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"A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us,..."
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Charles Lamb
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"something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."
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Mark Twain
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"A man is known by the books he reads."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine..."
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"is not one that we read, but one that reads us."
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"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more..."
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Robertson Davies
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"Almost everything you read about the 'war' is pure speculation and will"
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Matthew Parris
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"Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of"
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"Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of"
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"to encourage. I doubt that you would read a close friend's early efforts..."
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Anne Lamott
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"Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing."
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Doris Lessing
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"believe something just because you didn't read it in the papers. Wait until..."
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Walt Kelly
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"I was promoting Schindler's List, I'd read all these stories about Liam's..."
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Liam Neeson
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"and plastic robots who tell you what to read. Forget I mentioned it...."
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Frank Zappa
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"appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book...."
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Madonna
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"there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the..."
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Ben Johnson
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"convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it...."
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Groucho Marx
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"Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for..."
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Gore Vidal
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"How can I know what I think until I read what I write."
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James Reston
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"tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do..."
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Ronald Reagan
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"I don't want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be..."
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John Ashbery
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"I have my own voice. I never read another author's work with an eye to how..."
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Tami Hoag
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"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull"
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"was a joke. I said I did not want to read in the papers, 'Shoot Charlton..."
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"shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths..."
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Christina Aguilera
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"men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think;..."
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Charles Lamb
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"I move my lips when I read -- I'm painfully slow -- so I like really good"
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John Lecarre
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"man who has written more than he has read...."
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Samuel Johnson
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"what I think about something until I read what I've written on it."
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William Faulkner
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"anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was"
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Stanley Kubrick
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"I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence"
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Michael Caine
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"I read science fiction constantly, I love it dearly... I read probably two,..."
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David Crosby
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"I really love eating, so I love reading about food, and I religiously read..."
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Sarah Jessica Parker
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"suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers...."
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Albert Camus
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"want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to..."
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John Burroughs
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"gather my wits I pick up the paper and read the obits If my name is not in..."
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Studs Terkel
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"dyslexic . . . And I still have a hard time reading today. Accept the fact..."
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"I was reading a periodical about wine the other day. And they had an ad for..."
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"first drafts as if no one else will ever read them -- without a thought..."
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Anne Tyler
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"for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being..."
Full 'Umberto Eco' Quote
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Umberto Eco
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"wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it."
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Toni Morrison
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"it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and the company of..."
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W K Clifford
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"If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand..."
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Anne Frank
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"If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet,"
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Toni Morrison
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"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each..."
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose..."
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"If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a..."
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Jane Wagner
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"persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves...."
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Don Marquis
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"understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It..."
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George Will
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"mad if you looked back and the guy was reading a magazine...."
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Jack Handy
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"ain't no better way than to grab 'em and read. And if you put them in front..."
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Maurice Sendak
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"first drafts as if no one else will ever read them -- without a though..."
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Anne Tyler
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"I'm 32 years old but I read at the 34-year-old level."
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Dana Carvey
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"a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
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Winston Churchill
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"It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more..."
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"enslave mentally or socially a Bible reading people. The principles of the..."
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"It is well to remember that reading books about the Bible is a very..."
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"that balance sheets can make fascinating reading...."
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Mary Archer
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"I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes..."
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Howard Nemerov
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"Defendent: No. Judge Judy: Well, let me read your statement. Your son took..."
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"Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that..."
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Kurt Vonnegut
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"Knowing you'll have something good to read before bed is among the most"
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Vladimir Nabokov
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"Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail."
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"wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books -- but it..."
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Jean Anouilh
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"are used as wastepaper instead of being read...."
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"Long e-mails don?t get read. Most people don?t realize this, so I'll repeat..."
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Auren Hoffman
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"Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true."
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Willie Nelson
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"us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions."
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Mignon Mclaughlin
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". . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my..."
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Malcolm X
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"proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and..."
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Joseph Addison
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"offspring and to their society -- is to read to children...."
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Carl Sagan
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"day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture,..."
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"day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture,..."
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"Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you..."
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Desiderius Erasmus
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"Read good, big important things."
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Peggy Noonan
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"Read in order to live."
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Gustav Flaubert
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"Read nature; nature is a friend to truth."
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Edward Young
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"Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more..."
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Jean Rhys
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"people who can't talk for people who can't read...."
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Frank Zappa
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"wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others have done,..."
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Michael Crichton
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"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment"
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Thornton Wilder
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"Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the..."
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Florence King
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"efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write...."
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H. G. Wells
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"Tact is after all a kind of mind reading."
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Sarah Orne Jewett
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"treasures . . . as by his failure to read these books...."
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Walter Benjamin
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"The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which..."
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Harper Lee
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"The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good..."
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George Orwell
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"hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that..."
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Theodore Parker
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"The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that..."
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Umberto Eco
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"mass of humanity should never learn to read or write."
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D H Lawrence
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"companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not..."
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Ted Turner
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"an article that my mother's going to read, so we can forget about that. I'm..."
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Anna Paquin
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"this is to no man but to him that will read him...."
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Philip Sidney
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"to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written...."
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Elizabeth Kenny
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"ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it...."
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Elizabeth Drew
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"a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page."
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Saint Augustine
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"about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones."
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Joseph Joubert
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"There are scripts I've read where I really like the character but there..."
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Cameron Diaz
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"There are times when I think that the reading that I have done in the past..."
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Robertson Davies
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"There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of"
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Clarence Day
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"There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of"
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Clarence Day
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"determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like..."
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Ben Hecht
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"feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
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Harper Lee
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"admired: even I who write this, and you who read this...."
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Blaise Pascal
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"news while you wonder whether they've read the news -- or if they've blown..."
Full 'Linda Ellerbee' Quote
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Linda Ellerbee
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"facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines..."
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Henry Miller
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"articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an..."
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T S Eliot
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"We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide."
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Marcus Quintilian
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"We shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done."
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Thomas Kempis
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"science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in..."
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Kurt Vonnegut
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"What is reading but silent conversation?"
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Walter Savage Landor
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"What is reading, but silent conversation."
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Charles Lamb
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"to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I'm marrying Richard..."
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Julia Roberts
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"that we'll be funnier to look at than read...."
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Sinclair Lewis
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"When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero..."
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Elvis Presley
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"passes. The process of writing it and reading it can help you avoid..."
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Michael Levine
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"Writers should be read -- but neither seen nor heard."
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Daphne Dumaurier
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"Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight."
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Edna Ferber
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"Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation."
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Anne Lamott
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"destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them...."
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Ray Bradbury
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"You teach a child to read and he or her will be able to pass a literacy"
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