Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes, Change Quotes, Reading Quotes

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

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For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

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What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness my father was in Porbandar. There every evening he used to listen to the Ramayana.

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What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

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We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

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People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my readers and interact with my readers. It is a way that they can voice their opinion.

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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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Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

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Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.

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A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

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I should have written books instead of reading them.

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People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my readers and interact with my readers. It is a way that they can voice their opinion.

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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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All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

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Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

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I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

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Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice-- not enough money, not enough love--pity for all of us--it is our grace, walking down the ramp or on the moving sidewalk, sitting in a chair, reading the paper, pity, turning a leaf to the light, arranging a thorn.

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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