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Times change and discoveries are made that render earlier techniques and approaches less effective. Change is inevitable. To remain rigid when the whole world is changing and advancing is to invite misfortune. The AA program in particular is challenged with an opportunity of unprecedented magnitude.
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addiction
addiction-cure
addiction-treatment
alcoholics-anonymous
challenge
change
chris-prentiss
opportunity
reading
writing
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Chris Prentiss |
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"My interest in reading novels of various fiction was roused at a very early age. And the thought-provoking storylines of the great Donald Goines had been included in my very first library collection. ("Reviews by Cat Ellington: The Complete Anthology, Vol. 1," 2018)"
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cat-ellington
donald-goines
quotes
reading
reading-books
reviews-by-cat-ellington
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Cat Ellington |
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I sit, tired of reading. I am sick of books. I can't tell where I leave off and the books begin. I'm nobody. I'm a polluted nothing. A confessed sin, an open door, the clutterer in the clutter.
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books
burnout
ennui
reading
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Katherine Dunn |
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Ahora digo --dijo a esta sazon Don Quijote-- que el que lee mucho y anda mucho ve mucho y sabe mucho.
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reading
traveling
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
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Read liberal and conservative news sources; business, history, religion. All of this creates a renaissance persona that can stand toe-to-toe with any Fortune 500 executive. Get a nice suit and wear it; don't see yourself as a blown-in hayseed. View yourself as a modern Jeffersonian intellectual agrarian. What's on your bookshelf? How many hours a week do you read? Readers are leaders. Cultivate friendships across disciplines, politics, and religion. Entertain guests often; that's a cheap way to receive cosmopolitan information without having to travel.
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reading
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Joel Salatin |
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We read privately, mentally listening to the writer's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it. Picking up the book in the first place entails an active pursuit of understanding. Holding the book, we are aware of posterity and continuity. Knowing that the printed word is always edited, typeset and proof-read before it reaches us, we appreciate its literary authority. Having paid money for it (often), we have a sense of investment and a pride of ownership, not to mention a feeling of general virtue.
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reading
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Lynne Truss |
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The fine and varied literature that I read was almost all in translation: from classic works by Jack London, Victor Hugo and Charles Dickens, to detective stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Georges Simenon, not to mention fascinating pornographic books. I also appreciated the biblical stories that contained all three genres.
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reading
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Shlomo Sand |
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I began by making assumptions about the stories Borges chose for me -- that Kipling's prose would be stilted, Stevenson's childish, Joyce's unintelligible -- buy very soon prejudice gave way to experience, and the discovery of one story gave way to another.
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prejudice
reading
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Alberto Manguel |
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If he could not go out into the world, the world could come to him.
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disability
media
reading
social-networking
technology
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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Don't let me get sappy on you, but when you get right down to it, every collection of letters is a magic spell, even if it's a moronic proclamation by the Emperor. Words have their impact, girl. Mind your manners. I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.
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reading
words
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Gregory Maguire |
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She could have happily lived inside any nineteenth century novel.
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nineteenth-century
reading
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Kate Atkinson |
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The books my mother read and reread provided a broader, more adventurous world, and escape from the confines of her chronic illness. Her interior life was enriched even as her physical life contracted. If she couldn't change the reality of her situation, she could change her perception of it. She could enter into the lives of the characters in her books, sharing their journeys while she remained seated in her chair.
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imagination
reading
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted larger world.
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reading
reflection
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired.
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maturation
reading
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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Turner had never met a kid like Elwood before. was the word he returned to, even though the Tallahassee boy looked soft, conducted himself like a goody-goody, and had an irritating tendency to preach. Wore eyeglasses you wanted to grind underfoot like a butterfly. He talked like a white college boy, read books when he didn't have to, and mined them for uranium to power his own personal A-bomb. Still--sturdy.
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books
intelligence
nerds
reading
softness
sturdiness
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Colson Whitehead |
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They had started one of those wish-fulfillment kids' adventure books, where the boy hero has exactly the qualities he needs to triumph, at every moment... She'd been bored and annoyed, and at one point she tried to explain to Sebastian why it wasn't her favor-ite of his books. But Sebastian had loved the book unreservedly. Why hadn't she just read the fucking thing with gusto and relished every moment with her son? Why had she brought her adult judgment and professional story opinions to a book her kid loved? Of course the child hero should always triumph! Who wanted a kids' book to feel like real life? Real life was fucking intolerable.
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child
childhood
hero
judgment
kid
life
reading
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Maile Meloy |
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I regretted my human form briefly; it would be so much easier to drag and rope information into the brain as neatly as one dragged and dropped information on the computer. Perhaps I was suffering from a touch of information sickness? If I could weed out my thoughts...There was one reliable cure I've found, a bit of the hair of the dog--the release in reading. Not a manual: something with a narrative, a chute built by a writer and waxed until the reader fell into it and skittered right to the end without stopping. The relief of being in someone else's hands. Yes, exactly: I needed to be under a spell....it didn't matter who I was, or what I did, or where I paid taxes, or how long I stayed. I'm sure it didn't matter if the book had RFID tags or a checkout card with a ladder of scrawled names, though tags were neat. I knew the librarians would help me figure out anything I needed to know later--I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. They would be whatever they needed to be that day: information professionals, teachers, police, community organizers, computer technicians, historians, confidantes, clerks, social workers, storytellers, or in this case, guardians of my peace. They were the authors of this opportunity--diversion from the economy and distraction from snow, protectors of the bubble of concentration I'd found in the maddening world. And I knew they wouldn't disturb me until closing time.
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peace
reading
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Marilyn Johnson |
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Dona Lorena, una bibliotecaria sabia que rondaba por alli por las tardes, siempre me preparaba una pila de libros que denominaba <>. Dona Lorena decia que el nivel de barbarie de una sociedad se mide por la distancia que intenta poner entre las mujeres y los libros. <>. Durante la guerra la metieron en la carcel de mujeres y dijeron que se habia ahorcado en su celda.
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books
lectura
librarian
libros
mujeres
reading
women
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón |
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It'll be dark soon, Rudy.' He walked on. 'So what?' 'I'm going back.' Rudy stopped and watched her now as if she were betraying him. 'That's right, book thief. Leave me now. I bet if there was a lousy book at the end of this road, you'd keep walking. Wouldn't you?
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reading
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Markus Zusak |
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Cosa c'e di meglio, in realta, che starsene la sera accanto al fuoco con un bel libro in mano, mentre il vento sbatte contro le persiane e arde il lume della lampada?
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books
reading
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Gustave Flaubert |
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Reading has not gone out of fashion in the last number of years, nor in the ones while you slept in the asteroid belt. Your relatives do not wish to expose themselves to deep thought, lest they be affected by it.
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critical-thinking
reading
thought
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Anne McCaffrey |
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"Didn't you read the owner's manual?" " ? See here, missy. I've been an etheric engineer since before you were born. I think I know how to handle a lift crystal." "Evidently you aren't bright enough to do so, if you cannot read. We provide those manuals and specifications and procedures for a reason, you know."
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manuals
reading
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Jim Butcher |
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The shelves were supposed to be loaded with books--but they were, of course, really doors: each book-lid opened as exciting as Alice putting her gold key in the lock. I spent days running in and out of other worlds like a time bandit, or a spy. I was as excited as I've ever been in my life, in that library: scoring new books the minute they came in; ordering books I'd heard of--then waiting, fevered, for them to arrive, like they were the word Christmas.
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libraries
library
library-books
reading
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Caitlin Moran |