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• You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.

  Earl Wilson

  Doctors, Handwriting, May

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• I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.

  Jennifer Connelly

  Reading, Talking, Choices

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• The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is done not just openly but socially and collaboratively.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Book, Reading, Listening

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• Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Children, Book

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• When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

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• Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

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• I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

  Jackson Browne

  Reading, Grew Up, Mark

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• There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

  Mary Ellen Chase

  Children, Book, Reading

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• Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

  Harry S. Truman

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

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• A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

  Penelope Fitzgerald

  Book, Blood, Purpose

  Penelope Fitzgerald (1978). “The Bookshop”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What is reading but silent conversation?

  Walter Savage Landor

  Book, Reading, Library

  Walter Savage Landor (1826). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.497

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• My mother was good at reading books, making cinnamon biscuits, and coloring in a coloring book. Also she was a good eater of popcorn and knitter of sweaters with my initials right in them. She could sit really still. She knew how to believe in God and sing really loudly. When she sneezed our whole house rocked. My father was a great smoker and driver of vehicles..He could hold a full coffee cup while driving and never spill a drop, even going over bumps. He lost his temper faster than anyone.

  Haven Kimmel

  Mother, Father, Coffee

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.109, Broadway Books

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• My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Book, Reading, Tables

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.291, Macmillan

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• Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Running, Book, Reading

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.16, Penguin

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• Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.

  Mark Twain

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.396, Courier Corporation

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• Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS

  Charles Bukowski

  Book, Reading

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.148, Canongate Books

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• Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.

  Pat Conroy

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.40, Open Road Media

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• Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Writing, Reading Literature

  The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

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• Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

  Simon Raven

  Book, Boring, Notes

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• In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Real, Book, Reading

  1941 Language in Action.

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• I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Book, Reading, Men

  Speech in New York City, November 19, 1905.

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• I still read Donne, particularly his love poems

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Poetry, His Love, Love Poems

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• I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Life, Book, Thinking

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.174, Pan Macmillan

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• There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that against them. They are all fine people, and they had no idea how it would turn out.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Book, Reading

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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• When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

  Hugh Newell Jacobsen

  Reading, Pride, Cities

  "America’s Cities Are Innovating for the Future" by Eric E. Schmidt, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2013.

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