Best Reading Books Words
205 Reading Books quotes by 182 unique authors
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Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself.
— Frederick Lenz
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Books were my pass to personal freedom.
— Oprah Winfrey
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Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.
— Nora Ephron
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I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting your time reading…
— Jimmy Carr
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I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.
— Lee Child
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I don't want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books.…
— Garrett Hedlund
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The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.
— Clarence Day
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Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them;…
— William Styron
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For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was conscious of continuing…
— Alberto Manguel
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Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who…
— Jerry Garcia
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Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
— Charles de Gaulle
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My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
— Edward Gibbon
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
— Barry Goldwater
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To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed…
— Aleister Crowley
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
— Charles Darwin
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Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known…
— Robertson Davies
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I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong…
— Jonathan Davis
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
— Rene Descartes
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
— Kate DiCamillo
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out…
— Carrie Fisher
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Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
— Mark Haddon
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Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.
— Brad Henry
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