Al Alvarez Quotes, Reading Quotes

I'm good at reading people.

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if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

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

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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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Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.

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For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

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The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

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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

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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You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

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

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Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated, shredded, and boiled down, it is mind-easing and mind-inspiring to sit down privately with a congenial book.

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jined.

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We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - 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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You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.

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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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Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an eclectic reading list.

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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

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