Al Alvarez Quotes, Reading Quotes

I'm good at reading people.

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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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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

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Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.

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A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

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There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist. ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.

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That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.

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I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

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He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.

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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

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I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.

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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

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It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

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We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

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Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?

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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

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Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.

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You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.

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