Quotes with reading

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  • Umberto Eco I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
    (2011)
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Bill Murray I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.
    Interview with Jessica Lee Jernigan (May 1999)
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Adam Sandler I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where's my girlfriend?.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Carol Shields I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.
    (2011)
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Woody Allen I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Woody Allen I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Alonzo Church I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.
    Alonzo Church
    American mathematician and logician (1903 - 1995)
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  • Francis Quarles I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • John Millington Synge I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
    John Millington Synge
    Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer (1871 - 1909)
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  • B. D. Wong I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Tim O'Brien I'm not dead. But when I am, it's likeI don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading.
    De last die ze droegen (1990)
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Barbara Mertz I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.
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  • Oscar Levant I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
    Oscar Levant
    American Pianist, Actor (1906 - 1972)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Charles de Secondat I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
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  • John Ruskin If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.
    Sesame and Lilies (1865)
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Brian P. Cleary If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I've been issued.
    Brian P. Cleary
    American humorist and poet (1959 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • François Fénelon If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Thomas Carlyle If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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