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Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They… — Helen Dunmore
Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books. — Alvin Lee
Now I walk around with my head down, trying to hide, thinking that everybody knows that I inflicted people with HIV, because that is all… — Marc Wallice
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. — Charles de Secondat
Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular… — Clifford Geertz
It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see… — Kate DiCamillo
I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover. — John Pople
The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write. — Hannah Cowley
Read nature; nature is a friend to truth. — Edward Young
You can never trust what you read. — William Goldman
Thoroughly read all your contracts. I really mean thoroughly. — Bret Michaels
When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation. — Thomas Ken
A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long. — Sloan Wilson
Read my lips: no new taxes. — George H. W. Bush
I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English. — Chi Chi Rodriguez
The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that. — Francis Lockier
The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other… — Cyril Connolly
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else. — Robert Louis Stevenson
98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying. — David Remnick
My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from… — Wentworth Miller

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