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[My] deep religiosity... found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular... 
A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short. 
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. 
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. 
It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, witho... 
Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looki... 
Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks I got the sun in the mornin' -... 
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc... 
I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things. 
It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one’s adult enjoyment of what are called... 
Greatest companion is found in reading great books. 
Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when yo... 
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again. 
Whatever that place is, I don't much care -- not unless a book has happened there. 
If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not... 
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. 
In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative ... 
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries. 
Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old book... 
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – wo... 
I read everyday, because reading takes me away, away to a place where nothing is impossible. 
When you are old and grey and full of sleep 
I always seem to be reading several books at once. 
I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very youn... 
Reading books is like wearing winter clothes; it covers and warms up the body of your naked soul. 
I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age'... 
I'll be looking at the moon, 
Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading. 
There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that hist... 
There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that hist... 
The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in what... 
I'm usually reading too many books - in fact, I'm usually reading enough books that if the s... 
It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life--be she a genteel lady or a serving girl--m... 
Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age. 
I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books. 
I went to something like six different schools before the age of 12, so I was always the new girl an... 
Its a little like looking at yourself looking in a mirror looking at yourself looking in a mirror. 
Books worth reading once are worth reading twice; and what is most important of all, the masterpiece... 
Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books, 
Keith Moon is not interested in jazz and won't ever be a jazz drummer because he's more inte... 
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books 
I'm pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level. 
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Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books. 
Reading books is a major avenue to develop and improve yourself 
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The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are wo... 
The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are wo... 
Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you alw... 
I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that s... 
An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of... 
I believe it is customary to get get one's washing over first in baths and bask afterwards; personal... 
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Book clubs, both online and in person, have become a large percentage of the reading public, and man... 
I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: hours spent in airless classrooms... 
Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn&#... 
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought. 
Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of... 
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I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me. 
I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all thei... 
To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what y... 
The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face. 
From the sense of being an ambassador for Jesus Christ, hopefully, through my story and through all ... 
I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war ec... 
It is our responsibility, but not burden, to be champions. 
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I love badminton, and representing China is an honour for me. 
If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.