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Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory… — Charles Caleb Colton
His achievements read like the graffiti on the walls of a hangman's changing room. — Jonathan Larson
In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Life is a poem most people never read. — Laurence Overmire
It's important to read because it's really good for your vocabulary. It's really good for your imagination. I enjoy reading because I find it relaxing. — Emma Watson
Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful. — W. Averell Harriman
The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice. — Irving Howe
Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure — Jane Brody
There are only two kinds of Wodehouse readers, those who adore him and those who have never read him. — Unknown Author
I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S.… — Dave Barry
Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but… — Mark Twain
However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant — Saadi
But the more I read... after awhile... I begin to find they were all writing about the same thing, this same dull old here-today-gone-tomorrow scene...… — Ken Kesey
A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them. — Mark Twain
I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time, can make it… — Unknown Author
It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls. — Mary MacLane
Boredom has been used as a technique, it is a device. In Zen, boredom is used as a device: you are bored to death, and… — Rajneesh
...there is no doubt something will be done sooner or later to enable us to put on a house every day, just as we put… — Ettore Sottsass
Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house. — John Ruskin

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