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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But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it.
Erno Rubik
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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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If you're a writer, and you write fiction, that's not all you read.
Esperanza Spalding
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
Stephen King
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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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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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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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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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The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.
Juan Enriquez
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Read, read, read. That's all I can say.
Carolyn Keene
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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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Read to live, not live to read.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I like to read books. I like to listen to music.
Haruki Murakami
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Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.
Isaac Rosenberg
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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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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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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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You can read about yourself but what's important is how you feel about yourself.
Marilyn Monroe
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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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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
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There was no demonstration of love I could read as a little boy.
Stewart Stern