T. S. Eliot Quotes, Reading Quotes, Exercise 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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Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Reading Quotes , Culture Quotes

Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Reading Quotes , Thinking Quotes

It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Reading Quotes , Effort Quotes

I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Mother 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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T'is true: there's magic in the web of it.

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Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

Good books are the warehouses of ideas.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Reading Quotes , Writing Quotes

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

I should have written books instead of reading them.

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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

I'm good at reading people.

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

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Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.

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Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Children Quotes , Reading Quotes

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

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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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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Reading Quotes , Writing Quotes