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It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance… — C.S. Lewis
A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to be… — Isaac D'Israeli
Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music and arts programs. They increase the ability of young people to do math. They increase… — William J. Clinton
I'm not sure I had ever written a fan letter before to a poet I had not met, but that's what I did when I… — Thom Gunn
Few novels truly deserve the description 'rollicking' in the way Mary Novik's Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served up in rich… — Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Laugh, love, dream, strive, smile, feel, joy, look, try, fail, read, walk, search, share, help, work, fun, learn, retry, sweat, cry, rest, wait, fear, hope,… — Steve Coleman
Men and women make their own beauty or their own ugliness. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton speaks in one of his novels of a man "who… — Alexander Smith
[I]t is easy to regard the mind and the body as two slaves trained to obey the imperial soul.... [I]n this trinity of soul, mind,… — Edward Everett Hale
I love magazines and film critics, so I eat it up. I'm not one of those people who says 'I never read anything.' I generally… — Judd Apatow
I've actually been looking at plays, and I have read a bunch of stuff. I would love to do it. I have thought about theatre… — Jerzy Jeszke
Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly. — Mary Schmich
We like to read others but we do not like to be read. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future... We watch our experts read the entrails of… — Eric Hoffer
Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors. — Marcel Proust
As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a… — John Updike
President George] Bush talked to us like we were a bunch of morons and we ate it up. Can you imagine, the Pledge of Allegiance,… — John Updike
Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read or write, but… — Jesse Jackson
It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else. — William Hazlitt
Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the rose. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to understand my English… — Melissa Bank
Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any… — Thomas Carlyle
To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman… — Washington Irving
It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume… — Gore Vidal
The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on the whole, educated… — Margaret Mead

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