Read Quotes
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Read with your soul, not with your eyes.
Annalee Skarin
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In short, the books that were of paramount importance in early Christianity were for the most part read out loud by those who were able to read, so that the illiterate could hear, understand, and even study them. Despite the fact that early Christianity was by and large made up of illiterate believers, it was a highly literary religion.
Bart Ehrman
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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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Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.
Bonnie Friedman
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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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I think if people read more, that is a better world.
Jeff Bezos
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If Russians knew how to read they would write me off.
Catherine the Great
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I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.
Kurt Cobain
Nirvana
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... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us.
Charles Dickens
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If you are still alive when you read this,
close your eyes. I am
under their lids, growing black.
Bill Knott
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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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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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To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the other viewers.
Claude Lelouch
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I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages.
Muhammad Ali
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The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.
Ernest Gaines
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
Miguel de Unamuno
