Quotes with re-reading

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  • Alice James What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Augustus William Hare What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching of the eye almost always.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Walter Savage Landor What is reading, but silent conversation.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Burton Richter What struck me first on reading the Ten Hoeve-Jacobson paper was how small the consequences of the radiation release from the Fukushima reactor accident are projected to be compared to the devastation wrought by the giant earthquake and tsunami.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • George Bernard Shaw What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Billy Collins When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • C. S. Forester When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard When I was coming of age, I remembered reading and studying the initial ideas within the feminist movement. There was this idea with my parents' generation that in order to find equality, a woman would need to behave like a man.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Carolyn Chute When I'm not writing, I do a lot of research reading on the shape of civilization. Fiction can be a lot of different things... but I feel like it's my job to write about the way things are.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Ezra Pound With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • James Joyce Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Antonin Artaud Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • William Lyon Phelps You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.
    William Lyon Phelps
    American author, critic and scholar (1865 - 1943)
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  • Ray Bradbury You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Blake Schwarzenbach You don't know what I'm all about / Like killing cops and reading Kerouac
    24 Hour Revenge Therapy (1993)
    Blake Schwarzenbach
    American musician (1967 - )
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  • Bill Gates You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard - in other words a netbook - will be the mainstream on that. quoted in
    Interview: "Bill Gates Joins the iPads Army of Critics. Steve Jobs Couldnt Care Less.", Feb 11, 2010, CBS News
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • John Morley You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Antonia Fraser I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Bruno Tonioli I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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