Margaret Thatcher Quotes, Father Quotes, Reading Quotes

All the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek...

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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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Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

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If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.

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From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.

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I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

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Bible reading is an education in itself.

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Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

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

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When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.

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Reading maketh a full man.

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Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

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I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people.

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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

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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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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Reading Quotes , Exercise Quotes

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

Tokyo Heist is a fast-paced, exotic reading adventure, a story where The da Vinci Code meets the wildly popular manga genre! Author Diana Renn infuses protagonist Violet with plenty of chikara (power) and Renn's fresh, spot-on author's voice is irresistible. I couldn't put it down!

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Tags : Alane Ferguson Quotes , Reading Quotes , Adventure Quotes

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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