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There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I did a lot of reading. I read about democratic socialism. And I read about the efforts of people for such a… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
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Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
A love of reading encompasses the whole of life: information, knowledge, insight and understanding, pleasure; the power to think, to select, to… — Frances Clarke Sayers Copy Share Image
I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the 'Hindustan… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
If you think that what you're doing is not all that important in the larger scheme of things and that you're just… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Truth cannot be given to you; especially if you are following an organized religion, then truth will be as far from you… — Anandmurti Gurumaa Copy Share Image
“I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world and around… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Watching a scene from a film in slow motion is possible, but there’s an unreal air to it; reading a passage from… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
“In the end Navidson is left with one page and one match. For a long time he waits in darkness and cold,… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
Earlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/post/santorum-says-he-almost-threw-up-after-reading-jfk-speech-on-separation-of-church-and-state/2012/02/26/gIQA91hubR_blog.html) — Michael C. Burgess Copy Share Image
I really don't watch enough TV to know about the impact. In my experience as a TV writer, I would say is… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
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I haven't invented anything earth-shattering. If I could be said to have one noteworthy ability compared with the average person, it's that… — Masayoshi Son Copy Share Image
I like when a poem ends on its "receipts," meaning it gives me something tactile or tangible to dwell on as I… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
I got a dog and am trying to elevate. I'm working out, eating healthier, reading books. Making 'Make it Out Alive' is… — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
“Without a clear-cut vision and a proper reading of the roadmap we may not reach the buoyant shores of the horizon. If… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Aquinas is worth reading. He has stood the test of time. And even where he errs, you can learn more from the… — Norman Geisler Copy Share Image
I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“My favourite place in the whole city was the Sempere & Sons bookshop on Calle Santa Anna. It smelled of old paper… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
“[T]o read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Literacy is so much entwined in our lives that we often fail to realize that the act of reading is a miracle… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
“Real reading is reincarnation. There is no other way to put it. It is being born again into a higher form of… — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
“Makikilala rin tayo sa kinds of books and other reading materials that we read. Our reading is the outward expression of our… — Ronald Molmisa Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why people in the west are nervous is they are reading the Koran, and the life of Mohammed… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
Not reading a beautiful book again because you've already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend… — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
In 1969, we emigrated to Australia. It was a big change. The heat, the flies, and the completely different tinned meats. The… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
I spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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