Quotes and sayings about tag  reading

We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

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• Books

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.

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• Books

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

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• Motivational

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

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• Books

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

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• Books

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

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• Books

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

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• Books

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

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• Education

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

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• Books

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

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• Books

Reading is reading - no matter what the material.

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• Books

From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

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• Humor

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

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• Humor

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

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• Books

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

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• Life