Quotes with re-reading

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  • Bunker Roy School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.
    Bunker Roy
    Indian social activist and educator (1945 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • John Morley 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.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan Sometimes I'll be reading something online and just get so frustrated because of what people are saying.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Bee Wilson 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.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Guy Davenport Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
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  • Sarah Orne Jewett Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
    Sarah Orne Jewett
    American novelist, short story writer and poet (1849 - 1909)
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  • Moses Hadas Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.
    Moses Hadas
    American teacher, translator and classical scholar (1900 - 1966)
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  • Carol Loomis 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.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Paul Auster 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.
    (2005)
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Theodore Parker 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.
    Theodore Parker
    American minister (1810 - 1860)
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  • Candace Camp 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.
    Candace Camp
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Alan Dundes 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.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • James Joyce The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • C. S. Lewis 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.
    The Worlds Last Night (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Carlton Cuse The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story, when you read a book, in a way that is unique and special to each person who reads it.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Bobby Orr The fat lady hasn't sung yet. We'll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Samuel Johnson The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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