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" Quotes and Sayings About reading

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude

Reading Fruitful Communication Solitude
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A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

Exact Man Reading Ready
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Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two 'languages.' It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.

Aloud AsFarAs Books Combination
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We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.

Art Artistic Attention Considerable
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.
Two Spreading Light Candle
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

Am Book Drama Film
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Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written.

Cruel Heart Song Reading-eyes
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When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.

Been Constantly Cultural Fiction
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I feel like if I'm going to take time reading, I better be learning.

Better Feel Going Learning
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Educate yourself, my people, never stop reading and learning, we need to awake!

Educate People Reading Awake
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
Damn Easy Easy Reading Hard
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I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative activity. Maybe that's an experience which is not so common any more with the presence of television in every home.

Activity Any Child Children
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Once you create this thing between duty and reading, it's over. Reading's over.

Between Create Duty Once
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The whole point of reading is that the writer is speaking to you, and if you're not listening, you're not going to have any fun reading.

Any Fun Going Listening
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If it's not gripping you, you are reading the wrong book.

Book Gripping Reading Wrong
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At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

Painful times Reading Grammars Dictionaries
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When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

Imagery Important Makes Most
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I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

Books Find Given Mind
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I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life, but I don't because I'm always reading scripts or things to prepare for movies when I'm reading.

Literature Life Reading script Prepared
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Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was 26. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're 34.

Anyone Bikini Entire Go
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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.

Beauty Book Books Deep
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If you actually do cold readings, it's very close to how people actually talk, because you're experiencing these thoughts anew every moment, and trying to make them come out coherently.

Actually Anew Because Close
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I get newspapers from Britain and other countries twice a week and read them almost page to page. Sometimes I find I'm reading things I don't even need to read, because my mind is still hungry.

Almost Because Britain Countries
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In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

Any Better Create Desired
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Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.

Cannot Day Every Every Day
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I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.

About Book Dog Drinking
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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Books Burn Culture Destroy
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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Books Burning Crimes Reading
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I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'

Buy Down Found Funds
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They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece.

Clearer Doing Fun Get
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The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

Students Reading Keeping Everyone
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Books Centuries Conversation Finest Good
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When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do.

Aware Career Done Good
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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.

Advise Congress Distinct Duties
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If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

Find Love Read Reading
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

About Anyone Emotional Even
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I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

Ability Alive Come Extremely
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I can't stand reading anything that I've said.

Anything Reading Said Stand
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I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

Every Journal Keep Past
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The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

Corrupted Economy Eyes Makes
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Reading is the last act of secular prayer.
Act Last Prayer Reading
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You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

Breeding Ease Easy Hard
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Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

Day House Inspirational Just
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There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.

Author Difficult First Front
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I never loved reading until I feared I would lose it. One does not love breathing.

Never loved Reading Feared Lose it
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I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

Group Jazz Liked Lyrics
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The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it.

About Because Bizarre Dead
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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Life People People Say Prefer
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Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

About Learning Like Love
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

Grew Mark Mark Twain Reading
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