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I should have written books instead of reading them.

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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

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When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.

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The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

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Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film. Some films can, but not too much.

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People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my readers and interact with my readers. It is a way that they can voice their opinion.

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One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

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By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently interested; don't know how I got in and can't find the way out, but I'm having a booming time all to myself.Don't know what a Schelgesetzentwurf is, but I keep as excited over it and as worried about it as if it were my own child. I simply live on the Sch.; it is my daily bread. I wouldn't have the question settled for anything in the world.

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Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.

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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

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I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

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I even love the smell of books.

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A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

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From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.

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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.

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Reading history while you make history can teach you a lot.

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Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.

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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

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Get informed, not by reading The Huffington Post.

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