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" Quotes and Sayings About reading

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

Begins Company Education Finish
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Knowledge Makes Materials Mind
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

About Books Keep New
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Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Books Feel I Feel Readers
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Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.
Act Active Imaginative Reading
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I just have never got into reading.

Got Just Never Reading
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A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.

After Because Fact Hundred
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Again Book Cannot Enjoy
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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?

Because Doing Else Feel
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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Books Reading You
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I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.
Kid Read Reading Stand
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The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.

Art Passion Reading
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Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Reading Pleasure Solitude You
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I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.

Think History I
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The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists ourselves...The art of reading poetry is an authentic training in the augmentation of consciousness, perhaps the most authentic of healthy modes.

Art Poetry Consciousness
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Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

Adolescence Come Criticism Even
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

My Alma Mater Was
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

Am IAm Kind Other
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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
Ask Give Given Lecture
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I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading

Kind Other People Reading
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What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

Author Best Book Call
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The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

Activity Children Literate Make
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I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.

Am Because Computer Feel
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If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.

About Been Blog Corporate
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In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Came First Found Great
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Through reading the scriptures, we can gain the assurance of the Spirit that that which we read has come of God for the enlightenment, blessing, and joy of his children.

Assurance Blessing Children Come
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Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good.

Because Books Complicated Dark
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A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.

Reading Kind Common Articulated
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I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

Everything Having Helps Many
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I have suffered from bullying in many ways, from bullying in school due to my disability in reading, to digital abuse that I deal with on a daily basis. I'd like to tell the kids that are being bullied that no one should have to deal with the abuse, ever!

Abuse Basis Being Bullied
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My family was absolutely supportive. I did have a fear of cold reads because of my dyslexia, but my family's support and reading classes really helped me overcome my fear!

Absolutely Because Classes Cold
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I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

Shy Spend Time Reading
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My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

Arises Aspects Car Choices
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I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.

About Any Form I Think
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Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

Bad Ballplayer Bit Even
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I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.

Book Deck Love Lying
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At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

About Been Came Crazy
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It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.

Almost Any Believe Call
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All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading... freedom struggles and so on.

People Freedom Heroes Story
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Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession.

Reading Possession March
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The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.
Been Book Last Life
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A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

Classic Book Rereading Discovery
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

Like Thing Stick Reading
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A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
Capacity Taste Reading Access
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
Deep Form Minds Must
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I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

Always Books Did Falling
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But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

Aware Because Become Experience
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I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.

Alive Altogether Argue Certain
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There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.

American American Idol Because Board
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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.

Book Books Day Doing
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