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Reading Quotes (page 128)

David Sedaris quote: "If a person who constantly reads is labeled a bookworm, then I..."
If a person who constantly reads is labeled a bookworm, then I was quickly becoming what might be called a tapeworm. David Sedaris
TINA: Oh, Rick, Rick, I’m scared. What’s happened to us? I can’t seem to find us any more. I reach out and reach out and we’re just not there. I’m frightened. I’m a frightened child (Looks out the window) I hate this rain. Sometimes I see me dead in it. RICK (quietly): My darling, isn’t that a line from ‘A Farewell To Arms’? TINA (turns, furious): Get out of here. Get out! Get out of here before I jump out of this window. Zooey took a parting look at the page he had been reading, then closed... J. D. Salinger
I wanted a good place to settle: Cold Mountain would be safe. Light wind in a hidden pine -Listen close - the sound gets better. Under it a gray haired man. Mumbles along reading Huang and Lao. For ten years I havn't gone back home. I've even forgotten the way by which I came. Gary Snyder
Jodi Picoult quote: "How do you know that you are not part of a book? That..."
How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now? Jodi Picoult
Pride,’ observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, ‘is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary. Jane Austen
Ann Richards quote: "I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean..."
I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house. Ann Richards
Audrey Hepburn quote: "For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not..."
For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime. Audrey Hepburn
Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am) can consistently believe (as I do) that we learn much more of human interest about how people think and feel and act by reading novels or studying history than from all of naturalistic psychology, and perhaps always will; similarly, the arts may offer appreciation of the heavens to which astrophysics cannot aspire. Noam Chomsky
Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a terminal illness because if you do you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived. A. Whitney Brown
All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before. C. S. Lewis
Charlaine Harris quote: "It's a sad comment on humans that none of them are tolerable..."
It's a sad comment on humans that none of them are tolerable to one who can read their minds Charlaine Harris
Dr. Seuss quote: "You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to..."
You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read. Dr. Seuss
Aldous Huxley quote: "Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume..."
Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books. Aldous Huxley
She knew she was going to have trouble believing in herself, in the room of her house, and when she glanced over at this new book on her nightstand, stacked atop the one she finished last night, she reached for it automatically, as if reading were the singular and obvious first task of the day, the only viable way to negotiate the transit from sleep to obligation. Michael Cunningham
He is still, at times, astonished by her. She may be the most intelligent woman in England, he thinks. Her books may be read for centuries. Michael Cunningham

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