Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes, Reading Quotes, People Quotes

No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.

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If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

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Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment.

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I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where's my girlfriend?

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

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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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Reading history while you make history can teach you a lot.

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We read often with as much talent as we write.

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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

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How well he's read, to reason against reading!

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Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

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

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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

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We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

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Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

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Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

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Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.

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

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To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

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