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Be as careful of the books you read as the company you keep. — Edwin Paxton Hood
Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out. — Thomas Lansing Masson
For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read. — Alexander Pope
Yet in our enthusiasm for the idea that everyone should be able to read and write fluently, we may be missing a crucial point: in… — Hugh Mackay
In the course of four hours, I watched my brain completely deteriorate in its ability to process all information. On the morning of the hemorrhage,… — Jill Bolte Taylor
Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian. — Amber Tamblyn
Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don't be envious, be honest with… — Bernard Baruch
I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop. — Tom Stoppard
Years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat. — Dennis Weaver
I am firmly convinced that the ideal combination leading to a happy life is to have the time to both fish and read. — Brian Murphy
Don't believe everything you read on the internet. — Abraham Lincoln
Read widely of others' experiences, even if it'd be more comfortable to snuggle back in the comforting cotton-wool of blissful ignorance. — Sylvia Plath
One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts. — Mother Jones
I have always advised men to read — Mother Jones
I've said to others that there were places I had forgotten about that were just so powerful. I've read the Gospels many times, but it's… — Michael W. Smith
I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because,… — Howard Nemerov
I felt tears sting into my eyes, and took a deep swallow of the first champagne I had ever tasted, remembering that I had read… — Anne Rivers Siddons
About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I defy anybody to read the… — Lev Grossman
I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think. — Charles Kuralt
Many of you already read my writings indicating that TV is the new god. There is a little thing I neglected to mention up until… — Anton Szandor LaVey
It is one thing to be well-read on a subject; it is quite another to be part of the subject itself. It is an unfortunate… — Lon Milo DuQuette
Sometimes it is safer to read maps with your feet. — Kelly Link
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind… — James Laughlin
Reading the word and learning how to write the word so one can later read it are preceded by learning how to write the world,… — Paulo Freire

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