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I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you… — Marilyn Hacker
100% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.100 — David Remnick
I never set limits or created mental barriers. You may have read that I imagined my biceps as big as mountain peaks when I did… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
You have two pages, that's the whole credit card agreement. The terms are clear and flat and easy to see so anyone can read them.… — Elizabeth Warren
Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being said. Photographers, on… — Howard S. Becker
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and… — Woodrow Wilson
A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long… — Ambrose Bierce
We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's… — Philip Roth
It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to… — Keren Ann
Nothing beats love. Love is the greatest healing power there is; nothing else comes close. Not ancient cures, modern medicines and technologies, or all the… — Naomi Judd
What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to be human. And… — Nicole Krauss
All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else? — William S. Burroughs
The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought to be read… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Now I realize it's fashionable in some circles to believe that no one in government should encourage others to read the Bible. That we're told… — Ronald Reagan
The Founding Father expressed in words for all to read the ideal of Government based upon the dignity of the individual. That ideal previously had… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle… — Anna Quindlen
School was a source of great suffering to me, but once I learned to read, I disappeared into books, where I was a happy visitor… — Sue Grafton
If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes, which should be… — Benjamin Franklin
This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on. — Will Arnett
My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what's the purpose of reading, and maybe that it's not that cool… — Josh Radnor
It is rare to find an established community of Christians that encourages radical expressions of following Jesus. The natural conservatism of institutions is deeply rooted… — Michael Spencer
I see the Christian world like this: we've inherited a divided map of the truth, and each of us has a piece. Our traditions teach… — Michael Spencer
The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above… — James E. Burke
Numbers have dehumanized us. Over breakfast coffee we read of 40,000 American dead in Vietnam. Instead of vomiting, we reach for the toast. Our morning… — Dalton Trumbo

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