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We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we… — Lewis Thomas
You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the… — Arthur Golden
The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their… — Thomas Gray
What's become of "yes we can?" That's easy. Finally people are starting to read the bills. — Tom C. Korologos
There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write. — Henry R. Luce
I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate. — Garry Shandling
It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it… — Leslie Banks
When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it. — Thomas Carlyle
Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power. — Michael Foot
After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not… — D. H. Lawrence
Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice. — Henry David Thoreau
Learn to read slow; all other graces will follow in their proper places. — William Walker
But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to that exchange. So I read… — Teju Cole
Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read… — Helen Oyeyemi
I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can… — Richard Adams
Youâ€™re probably wasting time on things like eating and sleeping. Cease that, and read all of philosophy and all of literature. Also art. Plus politics… — John Barth
One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in… — John Barth
Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such… — Edward Abbey
Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get… — Edward Abbey

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