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"When I read a
book I seem to read
it with my eyes
only, but now and
then I come across a
passage, perhaps
only a phrase, which
has a meaning for
me, and it becomes
part of me."
[William Somerset
Maugham] |
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"The more I like a
book,
the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one
of the things that makes reading so valuable."
[Anatole Broyard] |
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"Read in order to live."
[Henry Fielding] |
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"I have never known any
distress that an hour's reading did not relieve."
[Charles de Montesquieu] |
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"Reading is to the mind
what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind
to have its faculties kept on the stretch."
[August Hare]
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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."
[Ezra Pound]
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"Reading is
thinking with
someone else's head
instead of one's
own"
[Arthur
Schopenhauer] |
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"The minute you read
something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was
drawn up by a lawyer."
[Will Rogers] |
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"Always read something
that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
[P. J. O'Rourke]
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"Hard
writing makes easy
reading."
[Wallace Stegner]
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