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the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982

Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Only the weak invite their demons to live with them. Isn't that right?

I read poetry to save time.

This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But th...

When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I ...

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as ...

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new ...

You should've thought of that before becoming a fir

If you read fast and read all, maybe some of the sand will stay in the sieve.

You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, tha...

Read it wisely, Little One, for the power of ignorance is great.

He sat there studiously bent over his work (Bill saw him), which lay in a slant of crisp white winte...

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

The character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined. If those ac...

The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read

I loved the geography part. Learning about that made me want to read.

Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows h...

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class Fra...

Do you ever read the scriptures?""Every day," I said enthusiastically, "not a moment passes that I d...

To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll...

On gray days, when it's snowing or raining, I think you should be able to call up a judge and take a...

Some days you get up and you already know that things aren't going to go well. They're the type of d...

Read nature nature is a friend to truth.

The fire? It has been alive as long as I have. We talk and think together all night long. It’s like ...

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinki...

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinkin...

Reading to small children is a specialty.

School did give me one of the greatest gifts of my life, though. I learned how to read, and for that...

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by...

It's a strange sensation to pick up a book you read and enjoyed just a few months ago and discover y...

That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own.

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.

I asked, how is knowledge found? 'You must learn how to read, little sister,' he said.

Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their...

Don't be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend yo...

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.

I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or...

Two by two, I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycl...

Rest your eyes and then read till they fall out of your head.

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you ...

..he read whatever came his way, as if it had been ordained by fate,..

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost po...

Rear your children in light and truth. Teach them to pray while they are young. Read to them from th...

Read in order to live.

Read in oreder to live

Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zen...

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the do...

you act out what it feels like to be the one who doesn’t belong. And you act it out by trying to do ...

Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, sp...

The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained t...

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceil...

Man is what he reads.

how weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest of ...

I am more optimistic, both about reading and about books. There will always be non-readers, bad read...

Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or Englis...