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- All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do…
- More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.
- Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England,…
- We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public…
- The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
- I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
- It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
- I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.
- In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by…
- There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.
- Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through…
- One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.
- Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends…
- My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him…
- Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are…
- What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not…
- Gwendolen, from The Importance of Being Earnest I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train. There's…
- There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope
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