Oscar Wilde Quotes, Reading Quotes, Culture Quotes

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

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Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.

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I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.

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All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

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'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

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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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I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than once in two years, and even in these same cases I seldom read beyond the middle of the book - my distaste for the vehicle always taints my judgment of the literature itself, as a matter of course; and also of course makes my verdict valuless. Are you saying "You have written stories yourself." Quite true: but the fact that an Indian likes to scalp people is no evidence that he likes to be scalped.

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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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And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.

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Reading maketh a full man.

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I remember reading [ Studs Terkel's] "Working" when it first came out and just finding that very powerful. I was going into community organizing. What stuck was to reveal the sacredness of ordinary people's lives. That everybody has a story. And I think Studs is terrific at drawing out that shimmering quality of people's everyday struggles.

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If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible.

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I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.

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Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

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READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.

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Bible reading is an education in itself.

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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

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The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

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