Books And Reading Quotes - Page 8

• Beware that the one who reads is the same as the book, the same as what is read, the same as the speaker and the same as what is spoken without being the word.

  Mohammed Dib

  Reading, Book, Speakers

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• How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.

  John Burroughs

  Book, Reading, Doe

  John Burroughs (1905). “The Writings of John Burroughs”

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• The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.

  William Hazlitt

  Book, Reading, Mind

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.46

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• Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read or write, but they can memorize whole albums.

  Jesse Jackson

  Children, Book, Reading

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• Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have you ever bought a book by a Negro writer?

  Langston Hughes

  Book, Reading, Men

  Langston Hughes, Donna Sullivan Harper (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, p.60, University of Missouri Press

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• I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Reading, Mind

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.7, Grove Press

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• As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Reading, Wish

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.401, Wildside Press LLC

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• I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Book, Reading, Writing

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