Read Quotes
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If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.
Thomas Hobbes
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Sometimes people run out and read a lot of books, but they don't absorb anything from them. They want to read the next popular book.
Echo Bodine
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When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own - the place where we live - and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves
Cesare Pavese
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I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.
Juan Enriquez
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Why did she talk to me about how soles were ground and not about what she read?
Elena Ferrante
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Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.
George Bernard Shaw
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This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
William Faulkner
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But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it.
Erno Rubik
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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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Read to live, not live to read.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
Bram Stoker
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I like to read books. I like to listen to music.
Haruki Murakami
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These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.
Kinky Friedman
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Look, whenever I hear or read I’m beautiful, I simply don’t understand it … I’m certainly not beautiful in any conventional way. I didn't make my career on beauty.
Audrey Hepburn
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Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.
Isaac Rosenberg
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I will ask of you only the ability to read English and to think logically—no high school mathematics, and certainly no higher mathematics.
Edmund Landau
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You can read about yourself but what's important is how you feel about yourself.
Marilyn Monroe
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Read, read, read. That's all I can say.
Carolyn Keene
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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
George Bernard Shaw
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The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.
Barbara Holland
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I would stand there and read them. Well, not read them; I would look at them.
Ed McClanahan
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I like to read, and I like dance. I don't dance, but I like to see other people dance.
Esperanza Spalding
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One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.
Nina Bawden