Quotes 201 till 220 of 309.
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School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.
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Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
Source: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) -
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Sometimes I'll be reading something online and just get so frustrated because of what people are saying.
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Sometimes the buzz of reading about others eating comes from the voyeuristic thrill of seeing how the other half lives: the gold leaf and truffles or - in the case of Trimalchio's feast in Petronius' 'Satyricon' - the dormice and honey.
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Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
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Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society.
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Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.
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That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.
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The 'Fortune' I came to work for on Jan. 25, 1954, was a monthly, with pages significantly larger than what you're reading; 'art' covers that did not relate to stories inside; and a newsstand price of $1.25.
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The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days... I said, 'If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
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The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
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The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.
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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
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The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.
Source: The Worlds Last Night (1952)
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