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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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Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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

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Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an eclectic reading list.

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For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

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I'm good at reading people.

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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

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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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Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.

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We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

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For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.

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I am a part of everything that I have read.

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Books were my pass to personal freedom.

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A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

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Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

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A man is known by the books he reads.

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I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.

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Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

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