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The book of your revolution sits in the pit of your belly, young Indian. Crap it out, and read.Instead of which, they're all sitting in front of color TVs and watching cricket and shampoo advertisements. (Aravind Adiga)
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. View quote
Dr. Seuss
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. View quote
Oscar Wilde
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. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. View quote
Gene Fowler
A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. View quote
Thomas Beecham
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man. View quote
Arnold Bennett
Gentlemen don't read each other's mail. View quote
Henry L. Stimson
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. View quote
George Herbert
I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. (Aneurin Bevan)
Men of power have not time to read; yet men who do not read are unfit for power. View quote
Michael Foot
Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book. View quote
Mickey Spillane
I am a part of everything that I have read. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it. View quote
Warren G. Harding
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. View quote
Francis Bacon
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall. View quote
Bob Dylan
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. View quote
Emily Dickinson
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living. (Will Rogers)
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. View quote
Octavio Paz
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. View quote
Nadine Gordimer
Never read a book that is not a year old. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson