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Reading Books Quotes by Oscar Levant
- I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
- I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
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- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. — Tallulah Bankhead
- Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. — Aneurin Bevan
- When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading… — W. E. B. Du Bois
- Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what… — George Washington Carver
- Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before. — Nicolas Chamfort
- Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired… — Lord Chesterfield
- After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. — Jean Cocteau
- I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself. — Oscar Levant
- Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed… — Arnold Bennett
- I, alone, could never have produced this book. I say this mainly in case there are lawsuits. — Dave Barry
- All these people helped make this book possible. But let me make one thing clear: If there are any errors or omissions… — Dave Barry