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Good Reading Quotes (page 9)

Thorne Smith quote: "She reads a lot of books. Good things, books."
She reads a lot of books. Good things, books. Thorne Smith
Most people in this country are looking for literature that is useful. They feel that just exploring their feelings is good enough - they should be reading about leveraged buy-outs or how to get thin. We live in a culture that is so absolutely, madly focused on commercialism and on creating money and completely turned away from any other kind of creative value. People don't generally turn to poetry unless they're bereaved or have fallen in love. Or in adolescence, when their feelings are very... Erica Jong
Who's Mrs. Gummidge?' 'If you're a good girl and get well soon I'll lend you the book.' 'Oh, somebody in a book! All you people like Nilla and the Cornishes and that man Darcourt seem to live out of books. As if everything was in books!' 'Well, Schnak, just about everything is in books. No, that's wrong. We recognize in books what we've met in life. But if you'd read a few books you wouldn't have to meet everything as if it had never happened before, and take every blow right on the chin.... Robertson Davies
For a desert island, one would choose a good dictionary rather than the greatest literary masterpiece imaginable, for, in relation to its readers, a dictionary is absolutely passive and may legitimately be read in an infinite number of ways. W. H. Auden
Tom Peters quote: "If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea,..."
If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time. Tom Peters
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!"
Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading! Rainer Maria Rilke
There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature. Stephen Covey
Joss Whedon quote: "To read makes our speaking English good."
To read makes our speaking English good. Joss Whedon
Primo Levi quote: "He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language..."
He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good Primo Levi
There was no sense to life, to the structure of things. D.H. Lawrence had known that. You needed love, but not the kind of love most people used and were used up by. Old D.H. had known something. His buddy Huxley was just an intellectual fidget, but what a marvelous one. Better than G.B. Shaw with that hard keel of a mind always scraping bottom, his labored wit finally only a task, a burden on himself, preventing him from really feeling anything, his brilliant speech finally a bore, scraping... Charles Bukowski
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand..."
When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I had hardly begun to read. I asked how can you ever be surethat what you write is reallyany good at all and he said you can'tyou can't you can never be sureyou die without knowingwhether anything you wrote was any goodif you have to be sure don't write W. S. Merwin
A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples. This is feasible. Those who have produced stoic philosophies have all had enough to eat and drink. I feel I shall find the truth on my deathbed and be surrounded by people too stupid to understand—fussing about medicines instead of searching for wisdom. I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that. Bertrand Russell
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more 'numinous' than the Ressurection. Do they know how to have a good time, or don't they? Carl Sagan

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