Walker Percy Quotes
Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.
Quotes to Explore
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.
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I never read about photography.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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My mother taught me to read.
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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I love to read, and I love Martina Cole.
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For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.
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I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
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I would read all day if I could.
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
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I tend to read non-fiction.
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I read French much better than I speak.
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I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
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I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
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Don't classify me, read me.
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I go through these cycles where I read a lot and then watch TV a lot.
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I train five days a week hard - but it is short and sharp - 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.
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Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what slavery's about
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I am young. I better show off what I have now.
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Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.
