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Reader Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
- The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able…
- Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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- There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you… — Margaret Atwood
- A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. — Dean Acheson
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- Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
- I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle.… — Ann Bancroft
- The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred… — Henry Adams
- Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother! — Charles Baudelaire