James Joyce Quotes, Reading Quotes, Demand Quotes

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

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You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

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

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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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And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

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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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When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. (Reading this makes me wonder how much sooner man could have walked on the moon... had we listened to a child's fantasies. It is truly a pity that so many lose their gift of imagination to the steady hum of the status quo.)

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I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

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

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

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We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

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I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.

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Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD or I TiVo everything and wait until the end of a season and watch it all over a weekend. For me that's a really satisfying experience, like reading a book.

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

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O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.

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A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

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he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

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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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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

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Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment.

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