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Anne Frank quote: "Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut..."
Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements. Anne Frank
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty. John F. Kennedy
Holbrook Jackson quote: "Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today."
Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today. Holbrook Jackson
One grave in every graveyard belongs to the ghouls. Wander any graveyard long enough and you will find it - water stained and bulging, with cracked or broken stone, scraggly grass or rank weeds about it, and a feeling, when you reach it, of abandonment. It may be colder than the other gravestones, too, and the name on the stone is all too often impossible to read. If there is a statue on the grave it will be headless or so scabbed with fungus and lichens as to look like fungus itself. If one... Neil Gaiman
At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it. Arthur Golden
Giacomo Casanova quote: "If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at..."
If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read. Giacomo Casanova
Your call will become clear as as your mind is transformed by the reading of Scripture and the internal work of God's Spirit. The Lord never hides His will from us. In time, as you obey the call first to follow, your destiny will unfold before you. The difficulty will lie in keeping other concerns from diverting your attention. Charles R. Swindoll
I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone. Mark Twain
Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read. Frank Zappa
One cannot simply read the Bible, like other books. One must be prepared really to enquire of it. Only thus will it reveal itself. Only if we expect from it the ultimate answer, shall we receive it. That is because in the Bible God speaks to us. And one cannot simply think about God in one’s own strength, one has to inquire of him. Only if we seek him, will he answer us. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Womenfolks have powerful imaginations when it comes to a man, an’ she can read things into him he never knew was there, and like as not, they ain’t! Louis L'Amour
The book worm, the foreign-looking one with the dark, close set eyes an the Roman nose, who had never been sought after or cherished; who had always been left alone, to read. Michael Cunningham
Stephen King quote: "If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the tools..."
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the tools to write. Stephen King
Jonathan Franzen quote: "The first thing that reading teaches us is how to be alone."
The first thing that reading teaches us is how to be alone. Jonathan Franzen
Betty Smith quote: "From that time on, the world was hers for the reading."
From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. Betty Smith

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