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186 Read Books quotes by 165 unique authors
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Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means,…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nerd herd, focus. You're here to help the fledglings. Dour One and Dour Two aren't important," said Aphrodite. "Dr. Seuss reference. I like it," Stark…
— P. C. Cast
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There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But…
— George Bernard Shaw
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If I wasn't an actress I'd want to be a writer or else find a job where I got to read books and watch movies…
— Amber Benson
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But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this adventure right with the main…
— Matt de la Pena
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Some people read books for fun.
— Richelle Mead
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Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
— David Baldacci
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As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To…
— Paul Auster
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... I'm the fortieth-ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what! What if someday she lets me kiss each one of her freckles…
— Gary Shteyngart
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Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.
— Bob Dylan
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Years ago, when he was around fourteen, he'd been all hipped on the idea of going to India. He read books about people sitting on…
— James A. Baldwin
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You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
— John Ruskin
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The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and listen. They go…
— Paulo Coelho
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The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think,…
— Karl Marx
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Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
— Aldous Huxley
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Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying.
— Melissa Marr
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lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some…
— Stephen Fry
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At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't just…
— Alison Bechdel
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He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing.
— Neil Gaiman
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You could try and understand people, you could read books and understand words and concepts and ideas, but you could never understand enough or have…
— Deb Caletti
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libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's…
— Umberto Eco
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books at…
— Sebastian Faulks
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I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books like "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"…
— Nick Hornby
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