Read Quotes
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I only really love a book when I have read it at least four times.
Nancy Spain
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The Brightwood Stillness is a novel I could not put down. On the surface, it is the lives of normal people in trying circumstances. Deeper, it is an uncannily perceptive exploration of male psychology… Pomeroy is a brave new voice capable of taking us beyond the clichés of war and its aftermath and into the secret heart of every man. This is simply the best novel I’ve read in a long time.
Andrew X. Pham
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You don't have to turn the Page, I read the Story, it ends with you and me.
Bobby V
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Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.
James Anthony Froude
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Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.
Martin Heidegger
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One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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... but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house.
Eve Ensler
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I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
Joanne Rowling
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I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.
Sean Penn
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No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.
Seneca the Younger
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You know, an audition usually is you come in and read the scene and if you're lucky, you get to read it twice.
Ewan McGregor
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People enjoy being read to, beginning from when they're little.
Eva Marie Saint
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Wartihog put up his hand. "What happens if we can't read, sir?" "No boasting, Wartihog!" boomed Gobber. "Get some idiot to read it for you.
Cressida Cowell
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I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages.
Muhammad Ali
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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard Shaw
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The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.
Benjamin Carson
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I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by other writers - poets and memoirists especially.
Wendy C. Ortiz
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Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.
Joyce Carol Oates
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When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.
Huston Smith
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Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read. Ultimately, you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.
Soren Kierkegaard
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To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.
John Ruskin
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While we read history we make history.
George William Curtis
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Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.
Ngaio Marsh