George W. Bush Quotes, Believe Quotes, Reading Quotes

I believe in open government. I've always believed in open government. I don't e-mail, however. And there's a reason: I don't want you reading my personal stuff.

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Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest so rare and insignificant-and this commonly on the ground of other reading and hearing-that in large sense, one would say there is no pure originality. All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

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

Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Reading Quotes , Night Quotes

I believe in open government. I've always believed in open government. I don't e-mail, however. And there's a reason: I don't want you reading my personal stuff.

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We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

The first time I did a reading/signing thing at Cody's, the woman who did the introduction said something like that, and I wasn't the only one cringing. I remember looking out into the audience and seeing people's faces and people whispering to each other, and thinking like "Ugh, can we just cancel the whole thing? I can't go out there after she said that."

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Tags : Adrian Tomine Quotes , Reading Quotes , Thinking Quotes

We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly.

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Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.

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The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Art Quotes , Reading Quotes

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

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Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity?

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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

As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

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By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently interested; don't know how I got in and can't find the way out, but I'm having a booming time all to myself.Don't know what a Schelgesetzentwurf is, but I keep as excited over it and as worried about it as if it were my own child. I simply live on the Sch.; it is my daily bread. I wouldn't have the question settled for anything in the world.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Children Quotes , Reading Quotes

I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.

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

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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Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

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Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

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