Quotes and sayings about tag  reading

I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.

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• Writing

It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.

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• Books

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

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• Humor

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

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• Books

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

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• Books

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.

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• Inspirational

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.

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• Books

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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• Humor

Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.

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• Books

Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.

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• Books

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

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• Books

Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.

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• Education

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

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• Books

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

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• Books

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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• Books