Quotes 161 till 180 of 274.
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Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
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Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
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Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
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Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.
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Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
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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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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) -
Some men like me talkin' happy
Some calls it snappy
Some call me honey
Others think I got money
Some tell me baby you're built for speed
Now if you put that all together
Makes me everything a good man needs.Billies Blues -
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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Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
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Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas.
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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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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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