Quotes 61 till 80 of 533.
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As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
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Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.
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Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
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Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.
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Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
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Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
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But here's old Ken - he's been crass, he's been insensitive and thuggish and brutal in his language - but I don't think actually if you read what he said, although it was extraordinary and rude, I don't think he was actually anti-Semitic.
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But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.
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But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.
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But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end.
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But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.
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But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression.
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But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.
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But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.
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Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.
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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads.
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Classic. A book which people praise and don't read.
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