Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Reading Quotes, Mean Quotes

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

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In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.

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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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Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.

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Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

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I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

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

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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

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When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.

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For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

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Reading is the basics for all learning.

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I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

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I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.

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

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

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What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

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Yet, I had nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess (which might be of less moment still), that no one can ever believe this Narrative, in the reading, more than I believed it in the writing.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Reading Quotes , Believe Quotes

I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good advice. The only reviewer who ever made an impression on me was Skabichevsky, who prophesied that I would die drunk in the bottom of a ditch.

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If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.

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