Quotes 261 till 280 of 533.
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It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
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It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
Source: The Human Side (1954) -
It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, John Updike... Eudora Welty - that I became excited about the possibilities of writing.
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It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.
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Journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.
Source: The Critic as Artist (1891) -
Let all Americans sit down and read this great document. Since the Constitution's ratification, it has been the framework for our great nation.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
Source: The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) 4 -
Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.
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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.
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Like every child growing up in America, I read 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn.' I liked them well enough, but I didn't love them.
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Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it's a very painful job because we publish a lot of books, and there are things I see where I can punch people out. Therefore, we have some new people now, and the kids are going to read our books.
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
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Live always in the best company when you read.
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LL Cool J was a rapper-turned-actor, and I also relate to him because he was sort of a ladies' man and had a female fan base, but yet he's a positive dude. You never read about him getting into trouble or going to jail.
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Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper.
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.
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Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
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