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Reading is not optional.
Walter Dean Myers
Reading
Optional
Education
Study
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William Godwin
He
Loves
Reading
Everything
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Benjamin Franklin
Worth
Write
Reading
Either
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I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction.
A. B. Yehoshua
Respect
Expect
Novel
Fiction
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If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.
Benjamin Franklin
Would
Dead
Not
Worth
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The worship of God is a duty; the hearing and reading of sermons may be useful; but if men rest in hearing and praying, as too many do, it is as if a tree should value itself in being watered and putting forth leaves, tho’ it never produced any fruit.
Benjamin Franklin
Duty
Value
Fruit
Never
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Zara Cox
Reading
Watching
Idea
Show
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.
Yann Martel
Books
Social
Writer
Speaking
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
Bertrand Russell
Motives
Boast
Enjoy
Book
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In England, those qualities of playing it simple, being in the right position, reading the game, knowing the right moment to make things happen around you are not appreciated. Making a tackle, a run into the box - the spectacular things are more appreciated.
Xabi Alonso
Appreciated
Around
Being
Box
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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.
Ben Okri
Act
Book
Bring
Creative
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Real reading is a lonely activity.
Harold Bloom
Real
Reading
Lonely
Activity
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When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
Henny Youngman
Drinking
I
Evils
Read
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There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Will Rogers
Electric
Fence
Few
Kinds
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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He (René Thom) seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign.
Francis Crick
Intellectually
Strong
Biology
Lazy
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I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
Steven Wright
About
Dictionary
Everything
Poem
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The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.
Mick Jagger
Beckham
Confess
Girl
Her
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When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.
Pat Conroy
Almost
Bed
Before
Gone
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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
A. R. Ammons
Actual
Besides
Class
Differs
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From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
Groucho Marx
Book
Down
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Laid
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Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
George Washington Carver
About
Books
Carefully
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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
B. F. Skinner
Books
Great
Love
Reading
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We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.
Walter Dean Myers
Eat
Exercise
Know
Reading
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We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.
Walter Dean Myers
Flat
Flat Out
Kids
Need
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I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.
Walter Dean Myers
Approach
Child
Difference
Going
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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
Catalogue
Die
Ever
Head
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis
Humility
Infinitely
Listening
Lying
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. Lewis
Atheist
Cannot
Careful
Man
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I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
Christina Aguilera
Art
Baths
Bubble
Friends
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Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.
Cyndi Lauper
Fashion
History
Love
Makeup
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For people who are readers, reading is important to them.
Jeff Bezos
Important
People
Readers
Reading
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I grew up reading science fiction.
Jeff Bezos
Grew
Reading
Science
Fiction
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Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.
Jeff Bezos
Always
Continue
Find
Habit
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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington Irving
Gifts
Good
Good Nature
Heaven
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The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.
Leo Buscaglia
Best
Books
Children
Come
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Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
Bill Gates
Digital
Fantastic
Lightweight
Over
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Black
Little
Live
Makes
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I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Action
Ever
Expect
Get
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
Umberto Eco
Being
Capacity
Consumed
Continuing
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Umberto Eco
After
Book
I Think
Judged
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Reading 'Search Sweet Country' is like reading a dream, and indeed, at times, it feels like the magical landscapes of writers like the Nigerian Ben Okri or the Mozambican Mia Couto.
Uzodinma Iweala
Ben
Country
Dream
Feels
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I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty.
O. Henry
Never
Have
Time
Read
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I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.
Kevin Hart
Done
Auditions
Where
Casting
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I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.
Rodney Dangerfield
Asleep
Blind
Blind Man
Day
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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 a book.
Samuel Johnson
Book
Greatest
Half
Library
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When I was about ten, I discovered evolution by reading a book by Wilhelm Boelsche and seeing a picture of Archaeopteryx.
Konrad Lorenz
About
Book
Discovered
Evolution
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It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Harry Potter,' then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book.
Emma Watson
Book
Geeky
Greatest
Harry
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I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.
Rihanna
Able
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
R. A. Salvatore
Bad
By The Time
Did
Get
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
R. A. Salvatore
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Experience
Me
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