Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Reading Quotes, Speaks Out Quotes

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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Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

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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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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Reading Quotes , Writing Quotes

I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and I’m not correcting my style, and I’m writing just for the sake of writing, just for the sake of writing more to you… My precious, my darling, my dearest!

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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

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

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Reading Quotes , Writing Quotes

READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Country Quotes , Reading Quotes

If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Stupid Quotes , Reading Quotes

My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.

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Tags : A. J. Jacobs Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

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I was very aware of the fact that there are a lot of comics out there that I love, because I've grown up my whole life reading comics and I know every little nuance of the language and all the implications.

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Tags : Adrian Tomine Quotes , Reading Quotes , Love Is Quotes

Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.

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He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

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I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

I am a part of everything that I have read.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Reading Quotes

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

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

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

Tokyo Heist is a fast-paced, exotic reading adventure, a story where The da Vinci Code meets the wildly popular manga genre! Author Diana Renn infuses protagonist Violet with plenty of chikara (power) and Renn's fresh, spot-on author's voice is irresistible. I couldn't put it down!

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Tags : Alane Ferguson Quotes , Reading Quotes , Adventure Quotes

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Reading Quotes , Winter Quotes

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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