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982b4df	Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.	story reading fiction books read stories	Hilary Mantel
ab281f3	A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.	reading bookstore read discworld	Terry Pratchett
2625f5c	When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.	humor last-page dark-side first finish end read know die	Nora Ephron
3730640	Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .	think read knowledge	John Adams
954c4c6	Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.	reading read	Virginia Woolf
e80ec1f	Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.	stephen-chbosky the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower reading-books read	Stephen Chbosky
8197a0f	In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.	light write read stories	Alberto Manguel
c2c5ec4	The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.	books inspirational read	Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
418ee9a	I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in my books.	reading chilldhood read child	Alberto Manguel
1b4d9d0	"the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982"	read	Leo Tolstoy
331ffaa	The library was a little old shabby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in. She liked the combined smell of worn leather bindings, library past and freshly inked stamping pads better than she liked the smell of burning incense at high mass.	library reading feelings books smell mood read experience	Betty Smith
75a2735	My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.	reading books read	Alberto Manguel
6b7b5dc	Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.	words library reading text read	Alberto Manguel
a693911	Some days you get up and you already know that things aren't going to go well. They're the type of days when you should just give in, put your pajamas back on, make some hot chocolate and read comic books in bed with the covers up until the world looks more encouraging. Of course, they never let you do that.	rain hot-chocolate snuggle read snow	Bill Watterson
1f8da6a	On gray days, when it's snowing or raining, I think you should be able to call up a judge and take an oath that you'll just read a good book all day, and he'd allow you to stay home.	rain books snuggle judge read home oath snow	Bill Watterson
06276e8	Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.	robs tv read patience	Markus Zusak
fa228bc	School did give me one of the greatest gifts of my life, though. I learned how to read, and for that I remain thankful. I would have died otherwise. As soon as I was able, I read, alone. Under the covers with a flashlight or in my corner of the attic--I sought solace in books. It was from books that I started to get an inkling of the kinds of assholes I was dealing with. I found allies too, in books, characters my age who were going through or had triumphed against the same bullshit.	reading books read	Craig Ferguson
68727ff	It had been a good day, all things considered. I had managed rather well on my own. I opened Grandfather's Bible. This is what it would be like when I had my own shop, or when I traveled abroad. I would always read before sleeping. One day, I'd be so rich I would have a library full of novel to choose from. But I would always end the evening with a Bible passage.	library reading religious read	Laurie Halse Anderson
cf8b3fe	Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.	one-hundred-names constance-dubois kitty-logan hear fact see read	Cecelia Ahern
ace0c91	Only the weak invite their demons to live with them. Isn't that right?	depression life read	Maria V. Snyder
12c8672	If you read fast and read all, maybe some of the sand will stay in the sieve.	sieve sand read	Ray Bradbury
6a2d044	Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, 'How did he do it? He must be a genius!	funny humor richard-p-feynman richard-phillips-feynman richard-feynman feynman read genius joke favorite	Gian-Carlo Rota
11f7d05	"You should've thought of that before becoming a fireman." "Thought!" he said. "Was I given a choice? I was raised to think the best thing in the world to read. The best thing is television and radio and ball games and a home I can't afford and, Good Lord, now, only now I realize what I've done. My grandfather and father were firemen. Walking in my sleep I followed them."	television reading sleep-walking tv reading-books read radio	Ray Bradbury
04cc68b	Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith.	solitude library literature reading books bookish irvine-welsh skagboys zenith heroine reading-books read introversion introvert reader	Irvine Welsh
a702efb	We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.	live reading books book-reading lived vicarious abandonement good-time thumbs alive idle away read experience lives children	V.C. Andrews
27d1aab	"Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said, "It is the trade entering his body." The art must enter the body, too."	literature reading writer writing the-writing-life art writing-advice write artistry read discipline reader artist	Annie Dillard
0dbcc25	"Do you ever read the scriptures?" "Every day," I said enthusiastically, "not a moment passes that I don't have a quick read of Ieremias or dip into Ezekiel." She smiled, amused. "What a barbarian you are!"	momento ezekiel ieremias scriptures read	Bernard Cornwell
b124c01	I thought of all the summer evenings I'd spent sitting in the chairs under the trees beside the trailer, reading books that helped me escape Creek View, at least for a little while. Magical kingdoms, Russian love triangles, and the March sisters couldn't have been further away from the trailer park.	escape reading books trailer trailer-park louisa-may-alcott little-women reading-quotes escape-from-reality love-of-reading books-reading love-of-books read	Heather Demetrios
a122a35	"People should be more careful about what they read to their kids," Park said. "Some of this stuff sounds dangerous."	kids read danger dangerous	Jennifer Crusie
6ef74cc	We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what we actually did was no less extraordinary: we channeled the idea.	creative reading writing inspiration life new-ideas read ideas	Chris Prentiss
0f42d8d	I had had the job for three weeks. It was dreary. You couldn't read; they didn't like it. I would feel as if I were drugged, sitting there, watching those damned dolls, thinking what a success they would have made of their lives if they had been women. Satin skin, silk hair, velvet eyes, sawdust heart - all complete.	women success heart silk dreary drugged sawdust job read	Jean Rhys
cebf25a	..he read whatever came his way, as if it had been ordained by fate,..	reading read	Gabriel García Márquez
ff93ee4	The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the one hand, originated in 'infantile pregenital erotic exuberance, polymorphously perverse,' and that conscious attention, on the other, was a 'libidinal hypercathexis' -- by which magic phrases they seemed to mean that writing and reading, or telling and listening, were literally ways of making love.	sex love write speak read	John Barth

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

story reading fiction books read stories

Hilary Mantel

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A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

reading bookstore read discworld

Terry Pratchett

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When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

humor last-page dark-side first finish end read know die

Nora Ephron

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Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .

think read knowledge

John Adams

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Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.

reading read

Virginia Woolf

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Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.

stephen-chbosky the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower reading-books read

Stephen Chbosky

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In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

light write read stories

Alberto Manguel

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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

books inspirational read

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in my books.

reading chilldhood read child

Alberto Manguel

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"the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982"

read

Leo Tolstoy

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The library was a little old shabby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in. She liked the combined smell of worn leather bindings, library past and freshly inked stamping pads better than she liked the smell of burning incense at high mass.

library reading feelings books smell mood read experience

Betty Smith

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My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.

reading books read

Alberto Manguel

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Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.

words library reading text read

Alberto Manguel

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Some days you get up and you already know that things aren't going to go well. They're the type of days when you should just give in, put your pajamas back on, make some hot chocolate and read comic books in bed with the covers up until the world looks more encouraging. Of course, they never let you do that.

rain hot-chocolate snuggle read snow

Bill Watterson

1f8da6a

On gray days, when it's snowing or raining, I think you should be able to call up a judge and take an oath that you'll just read a good book all day, and he'd allow you to stay home.

rain books snuggle judge read home oath snow

Bill Watterson

06276e8

Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.

robs tv read patience

Markus Zusak

fa228bc

School did give me one of the greatest gifts of my life, though. I learned how to read, and for that I remain thankful. I would have died otherwise. As soon as I was able, I read, alone. Under the covers with a flashlight or in my corner of the attic--I sought solace in books. It was from books that I started to get an inkling of the kinds of assholes I was dealing with. I found allies too, in books, characters my age who were going through or had triumphed against the same bullshit.

reading books read

Craig Ferguson

68727ff

It had been a good day, all things considered. I had managed rather well on my own. I opened Grandfather's Bible. This is what it would be like when I had my own shop, or when I traveled abroad. I would always read before sleeping. One day, I'd be so rich I would have a library full of novel to choose from. But I would always end the evening with a Bible passage.

library reading religious read

Laurie Halse Anderson

cf8b3fe

Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.

one-hundred-names constance-dubois kitty-logan hear fact see read

Cecelia Ahern

ace0c91

Only the weak invite their demons to live with them. Isn't that right?

depression life read

Maria V. Snyder

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If you read fast and read all, maybe some of the sand will stay in the sieve.

sieve sand read

Ray Bradbury

6a2d044

Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, 'How did he do it? He must be a genius!

funny humor richard-p-feynman richard-phillips-feynman richard-feynman feynman read genius joke favorite

Gian-Carlo Rota

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"You should've thought of that before becoming a fireman." "Thought!" he said. "Was I given a choice? I was raised to think the best thing in the world to read. The best thing is television and radio and ball games and a home I can't afford and, Good Lord, now, only now I realize what I've done. My grandfather and father were firemen. Walking in my sleep I followed them."

television reading sleep-walking tv reading-books read radio

Ray Bradbury

04cc68b

Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith.

solitude library literature reading books bookish irvine-welsh skagboys zenith heroine reading-books read introversion introvert reader

Irvine Welsh

a702efb

We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.

live reading books book-reading lived vicarious abandonement good-time thumbs alive idle away read experience lives children

V.C. Andrews

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"Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said, "It is the trade entering his body." The art must enter the body, too."

literature reading writer writing the-writing-life art writing-advice write artistry read discipline reader artist

Annie Dillard

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"Do you ever read the scriptures?" "Every day," I said enthusiastically, "not a moment passes that I don't have a quick read of Ieremias or dip into Ezekiel." She smiled, amused. "What a barbarian you are!"

momento ezekiel ieremias scriptures read

Bernard Cornwell

b124c01

I thought of all the summer evenings I'd spent sitting in the chairs under the trees beside the trailer, reading books that helped me escape Creek View, at least for a little while. Magical kingdoms, Russian love triangles, and the March sisters couldn't have been further away from the trailer park.

escape reading books trailer trailer-park louisa-may-alcott little-women reading-quotes escape-from-reality love-of-reading books-reading love-of-books read

Heather Demetrios

a122a35

"People should be more careful about what they read to their kids," Park said. "Some of this stuff sounds dangerous."

kids read danger dangerous

Jennifer Crusie

6ef74cc

We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what we actually did was no less extraordinary: we channeled the idea.

creative reading writing inspiration life new-ideas read ideas

Chris Prentiss

0f42d8d

I had had the job for three weeks. It was dreary. You couldn't read; they didn't like it. I would feel as if I were drugged, sitting there, watching those damned dolls, thinking what a success they would have made of their lives if they had been women. Satin skin, silk hair, velvet eyes, sawdust heart - all complete.

women success heart silk dreary drugged sawdust job read

Jean Rhys

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..he read whatever came his way, as if it had been ordained by fate,..

reading read

Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the one hand, originated in 'infantile pregenital erotic exuberance, polymorphously perverse,' and that conscious attention, on the other, was a 'libidinal hypercathexis' -- by which magic phrases they seemed to mean that writing and reading, or telling and listening, were literally ways of making love.

sex love write speak read

John Barth