Lord Byron Quotes, Reading Quotes, Book Quotes

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

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After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.

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If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people readingfor the love of reading, slowly and unprofessionally, and judging with great sympathy and yet with great severity, might this not improve the quality of his work? And if by our means books were to become stronger, richer, and more varied, that would be an end worth reaching.

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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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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Reading Quotes , Effort 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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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Reading Quotes , Culture Quotes

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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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Reading Quotes , Reality Quotes

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

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

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Reading Quotes , Giving Quotes

He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.

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Tags : A. E. Hotchner Quotes , Reading Quotes , Writing Quotes

A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

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