Best One Reads Quotes
56 One Reads quotes by 48 unique authors
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When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there…
— Helen Keller
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One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft,…
— Garrison Keillor
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When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once…
— James Joyce
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I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
— John Adams
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If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.
— Sherman Alexie
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There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.
— N.K. Jemisin
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Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final…
— Frank O'Hara
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I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.
— Lawrence Durrell
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Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words…
— Paul Auster
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Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.
— Daniel Handler
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There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one’s mind and alter one’s whole attitude…
— George Orwell
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Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.
— Italo Calvino
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... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
— Aldous Huxley
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One reads alone, even in another's presence.
— Italo Calvino
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No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.
— Stanislaw Lem
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One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.
— Alan Bennett
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When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although…
— Blaise Pascal
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The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.
— Felix Dennis
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No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the absence of 21st-century…
— Douglas Coupland
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How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the…
— Ian Mcewan
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Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its…
— Lorrie Moore
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READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in dialect and…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false…
— George Orwell
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One reads books for knowledge, as one would breath Oxygen to survive!
— Andrew Guzaldo
Who Wrote These One Reads Quotes
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