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- Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing joy. What you…
- Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people's myths, not…
- There's nothing militant about Jesus. I don't read anything like that in any of the gospels. Peter drew his sword and cut off the servant's…
- How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need…
- Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level,…
- [Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a…
- Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.
- When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and…
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- When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. — Dario Argento
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont… — Isaac Asimov
- When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. — Chinua Achebe
- I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw. — Margaret Atwood
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth. — Margaret Atwood
- I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me… — Margaret Atwood
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it… — Margaret Atwood