Reading Books Quotes - Page 21

• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Education, Book

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.270

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• If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Change, Crush, Book

  "Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

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• No two persons ever read the same book.

  Edmund Wilson

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

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• The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Anger, Reading

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 19 (1891)

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• You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

  Dr. Seuss

  Education, Children, Book

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• I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.

  Joan Jett

  Being Happy, Spiritual, Stay Strong

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• Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reading, Book, Beer

  1849 A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers,'Sunday'.

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• I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

  Amy Tan

  Book, Kids, House

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

  Jerry Garcia

  Poverty, Ill, Cents

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• I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Drinking, Months

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.135, Algora Publishing

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• When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Education, Book

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• Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

  Frederick Douglass

  Reading, Book, Forever

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• The more you read, the more things you will know.

  Dr. Seuss

  Educational, Reading, Places To Go

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• The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

  James Joyce

  Reading, Demand, Should

  Quoted in F. L. Lucas, The Decline and Fall of the Romantic Ideal (1936)

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• OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Book, Reading, Library

  Gary D. Schmidt (2011). “Okay for Now”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

  Franz Kafka

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Happiness, Clever

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• There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Powerful, Children, Book

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• What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

  J. D. Salinger

  Book, Reading, Memorable

  Catcher in the Rye (1951) ch. 3

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• A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

  George R. R. Martin

  Reading, Ice, Fantasy

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.521, Bantam

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• Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

  Austin Phelps

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

  Austin Phelps (1882). “The Theory of Preaching: Lectures on Homiletics”

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• Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

  George Washington Carver

  Nature, Book, Fall

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• We read to know that we are not alone.

  William Nicholson

  Book, Reading, Knows

  "Shadowlands". December 25, 1993.

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• A house without books is like a room without windows.

  Horace Mann

  Life, Happiness, Attitude

  "The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

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• The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Friendship, Sarcastic

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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