Jane Austen Quotes, Reading Quotes, Years Quotes

it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

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This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, reading as if for life.

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This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

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There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

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Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

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I was very aware of the fact that there are a lot of comics out there that I love, because I've grown up my whole life reading comics and I know every little nuance of the language and all the implications.

6 years ago

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I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he read, and made clammy tracks along the page (or so I fully believed) like a snail.

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A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

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Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Reading Quotes , Humility Quotes

Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.

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

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

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The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the other is diffuse strength; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other's duties.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Reading Quotes , Gardening Quotes

The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Reading Quotes , Book Quotes

The saving of empty beer and liquor bottles is a strange college phenomenon. I bet most of you college students reading this right now have some empties on a shelf in your room. Everyone knows how much college kids like to drink, do we really need to display it? It's a good thing, though, that this trend stops after college. Wouldn't it be weird if your parents had empty wine bottles up on their bedroom wall?

6 years ago

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The first time I did a reading/signing thing at Cody's, the woman who did the introduction said something like that, and I wasn't the only one cringing. I remember looking out into the audience and seeing people's faces and people whispering to each other, and thinking like "Ugh, can we just cancel the whole thing? I can't go out there after she said that."

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