Adrienne Rich Quotes, Reading Quotes, Mean Quotes

To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously, to allow what you're reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers, the so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?

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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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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

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I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.

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He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

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I have sometimes dreamt ... that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards -- their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble -- the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when He sees us coming with our books under our arms, "Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading.

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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

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Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.

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I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.

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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.

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

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A book lives as long as it is unfathomed.

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

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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

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O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.

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

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It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

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He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.

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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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