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I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read. — Annie Dillard
I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I… — Channing Tatum
There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If… — Wystan Hugh Auden
... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think. — Louis L'Amour
History! Read it and weep! — Kurt Vonnegut
Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily. — Andy Rooney
Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it. — Vita Sackville-West
A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to. — E L Doctorow
To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Some people read only because they are too lazy to think. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised. — Isaac D'Israeli
The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with. — Samuel Johnson
Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read. — Samuel Johnson
Just a little every day That's the way Children learn to read and write Bit by bit and mite by mite. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read. — Stephen King
As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty… — Leonardo da Vinci
Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not… — Lord Chesterfield
I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don't get. And that later, when they grow up and read a few books… — Matt Groening
More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the… — Richard Le Gallienne
Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge… — Alexander Pope
That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what… — Simone de Beauvoir
I read 'Time', 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist'. — Nelson DeMille
We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that… — Adrienne Rich
Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts… — Helen Fielding

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