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  • Bob Dylan In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth In the old days, variety turns like me learned how to cope with failure - we all had nights when we 'died' on stage - but today's youngsters simply don't have that experience. For them, it really is instant make or break time - hence, all the tears and, hence, all the potential emotional damage.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Cassandra Clare In the same way that so many people read 'Harry Potter' and went to see 'Harry Potter,' just because a movie is about a kid, doesn't mean it's for kids, and just because a movie is about a girl, doesn't mean it's for girls.
    Cassandra Clare
    American author of young adult fiction (1973 - )
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  • Carol Bellamy Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Carolyn Chute It doesn't matter that millions read as long as you share it with somebody. So I don't really think about readers or editors. You especially should never think of editors - especially never think about reviewers.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Lewis Thomas It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on.
    Lewis Thomas
    American arts (1913 - 1993)
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  • Winston Churchill It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
    Source: My early life (1930)
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Umberto Eco It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • C. S. Lewis It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.
    Source: Letter (8 November 1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • C. S. Lewis It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him. We must not use the Bible as a sort of encyclopedia out of which texts can be taken for use as weapons.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Patrick Kavanagh It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.
    Patrick Kavanagh
    Irish poet and novelist (1904 - 1967)
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  • Sir William Osler It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Anita Brookner It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Dennis Potter It is nearly an axiom that people will not be better than the books they read.
    Dennis Potter
    English playwright (1935 - 1994)
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  • S. I. Hayakawa It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
    S. I. Hayakawa
    Canada-American Senator (1902 - 1992)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Lord Henry P. Brougham It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
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  • Carl Sagan It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls.
    Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Antoine Lavoisier It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.
    Antoine Lavoisier
    French nobleman and chemist (1743 - 1794)
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  • Bille August It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it.
    Bille August
    Danish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (1948 - )
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