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This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.

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Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

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if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

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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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There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

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I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

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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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In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.

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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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When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. (Reading this makes me wonder how much sooner man could have walked on the moon... had we listened to a child's fantasies. It is truly a pity that so many lose their gift of imagination to the steady hum of the status quo.)

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Get informed, not by reading The Huffington Post.

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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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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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Easy writing makes hard reading.

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Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

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

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

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Bible reading is an education in itself.

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

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To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

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