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Reading Quotes by Daniel Handler
- Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
- Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.
- A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying…
- All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.
- Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.
- It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of…
- The book was long, and difficult to read, and Klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his eyes would close.…
- If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good…
- If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.
- There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.
- Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for…
- If you are interested in happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy…
- I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire…
- Everything. A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may be coded, and…
- What you don't read is often as important as what you do read.
- Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be…
- There are some who say that sitting at home reading is the equivalent of travel, because the experiences described in the book are more or…
- Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell…
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- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading. — David Bailey
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson
- He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont… — Isaac Asimov
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it… — Margaret Atwood
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt
- He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and… — Arthur Balfour