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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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I am a part of everything that I have read.

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I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

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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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Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

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Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara.

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You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

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

The Brazilian national identity is not one of João Gilberto Noll primary concerns. This does not mean social critique is absent: race, gender, and class relations are considered in Quiet Creature. And these are universal relational matters, not necessarily particular to any country. Some critics have commented that understanding the specific Brazilian political context of the novel is helpful for reading Quiet Creature. This may be true, but it's not prerequisite for understanding it.

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If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

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An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.

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He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.

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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

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My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair. You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.

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I believe in open government. I've always believed in open government. I don't e-mail, however. And there's a reason: I don't want you reading my personal stuff.

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If a script has that affect on me during a reading, then it is definitely a film I want to be part of.

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T'is true: there's magic in the web of it.

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There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

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Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

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A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.

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