William T. Vollmann Quotes
So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk.
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When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but I actually didn't know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez.
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I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.
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I never used to drink water. I am drinking six liters of water every day now. That's the key.
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Hard writing makes easy reading.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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Book sales and teens reading is always a fantastic thing, but we should also be celebrating and consuming the huge wealth of U.K. and U.K.-based writing and illustrating talent. Authors such as Charlie Higson, Darren Shan, Holly Smale, Tanya Byrne, Catherine Johnson, Sophie Mckenzie, to name but a few.
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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.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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I remember the first reading of the script we had and everybody was sitting around the table. I was very impressed with the level of acting that was in the room, particularly with Jennifer who has so much responsibility.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.
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It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol.
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To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.
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Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.
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Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.
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When I realized I was depressed, then I started reading up about it. When I read that one in four people are depressed, I felt that I'm not the only one. I also felt that how many people must be feeling suffocated to fight this battle all alone. I just wanted to reach out and tell them that even I'm like you, and it's okay if you feel like that.
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I've always loved to paint - I was studying to do an art degree when I was approached to become a model - and I've being doing some design work as well. I also love just having a quiet time, sitting in my little library at home in Brooklyn and reading or watching documentaries or listening to music.
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Natural DNA is a tractless coil, like an unwound and tangled audiotape on the floor of the car in the dark.
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One of the few luxuries left is travel. And the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.
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Both parties in Washington waste too much of your money. When I worked there, I helped expose waste and abuse by government contractors.
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The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.
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So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk.
