Quotes 421 till 440 of 533.
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These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's important.
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They say my verse is sad: no wonder.
Its narrow measure spans
Rue for eternity, and sorrow
Not mine, but man's.
This is for all ill-treated fellows
Unborn and unbegot,
For them to read when they're in trouble
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They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.
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This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English.
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This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
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To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
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To be amused by what you read, that is the great spring of happy quotations.
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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
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To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That's why I don't listen to anything that's anonymous. But it's hard; when there's something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.
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To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
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To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
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To read is to voyage through time.
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To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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