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Of course the sands of Present Time are running out from under our feet. And why not? The Great Conundrum: 'What are we here for?'… — Brion Gysin
I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about. I don't know… — Christopher Isherwood
I read assiduously. I kept in touch with my species. — Leonard Michaels
The sanserif only seems to be the simpler script. It is a form that was violently reduced for little children. For adults it is more… — Jan Tschichold
For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second time… — Siegfried Sassoon
Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do — Wilfred Owen
Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way — Isaac Rosenberg
I'm not an educated man, but I've read some history. Every kingdom comes up bloody. Every castle is built on a pile of bones. When… — Mickey Cohen
Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read… — Leslie Fiedler
But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when… — Nigella Lawson
I also try to read all of my fan mail. A lot of them send me candy, which I'm not allowed to eat 'cause my… — Justin Bieber
I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free -… — Barry White
I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to work. — Glenn Frey
As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And as a philosophical… — Michiko Kakutani
But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take. — John Clellon Holmes
Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering. — Desiderius Erasmus
Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against… — Clarence Darrow
We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction. — Clarence Darrow
I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may… — James F. Cooper
Why can't Americans do their own taxes? Because the federal Tax Code is out of control, that's why. It's gigantic and insanely complex, and it… — Dave Barry
There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a… — Lin Yutang
There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere — Lin Yutang
I have read more about Oprah Winfrey’s ass than I have about the rise of China as an economic superpower. I fear this is no… — Caitlin Moran
Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. — Martin Cruz Smith
You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage? — Stan Lee

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