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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I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.

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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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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.

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

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Reading Quotes , Poetry Is Quotes

It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.

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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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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

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I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen Collect; with elbows idly press'd On hob, reclines the corner's guest, Reading the news to mark again The bankrupt lists or price of grain. Puffing the while his red-tipt pipe He dreams o'er troubles nearly ripe, Yet, winter's leisure to regale, Hopes better times, and sips his ale.

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Tags : John Clare Quotes , Dream Quotes , Reading Quotes

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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