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Reading Quotes (page 160)

My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I wanted in life - I didn’t. I loved reading novels to distraction, but didn’t write well enough to be a novelist; being an editor or a critic was out, too, since my tastes ran to the extremes. Novels should be for pure personal enjoyment, I decided, not part of your work or study. That’s why I didn’t study literature Haruki Murakami
My dad (Scott Swift) believed in me, even when I didn't. He always knew I could do this. I’m sure that everyone in Reading remembers how much he talked about me. I thought that was sweet, but really I just wasn’t as sure it would happen. So, I just love my dad for believing in his little girl. Taylor Swift
How glorious to be introduced in a drawing room to a Lady who reads Novels, with "Mr. So-and-so - Miss So-and-so; Miss So-and-so, this is Mr So-and-so, who fell off a precipice and was half-drowned." Now I refer to you, whether I should lose so fine an opportunity of making my fortune. No romance lady could resist me - none. John Keats
William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. "In the time of your life--live!" That time is short and it doesn't return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition. Tennessee Williams
Harold Bloom quote: "I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my..."
I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough. Harold Bloom
I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the... Ernest Hemingway
Henry James quote: "Living as he now lived was like reading a good book in a poor..."
Living as he now lived was like reading a good book in a poor translation... Henry James
I expected the illegible and the deeply buried in me to be read as if carved on my forehead, just as I expected the obvious and the ill-concealed to be hidden from view. Stephen Fry
Agatha Christie quote: "You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. ..."
You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories. Agatha Christie
The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading. Edith Wharton
Are you New World or Old?' 'Sounds like a novel by Henry James.' 'Never read him.' 'Don't. But that was his question and he plumped for the Old. Robertson Davies
Francoise Sagan quote: "My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my..."
My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough? Francoise Sagan
Even when you have been somewhat enlightened by what you have read, you are called upon to continue the serach for significance. Mortimer Adler
Werner Herzog quote: "May I propose a Herzog dictum? those who read own the world,..."
May I propose a Herzog dictum? those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it. Werner Herzog
Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages. Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding. Steadfast in the broken binding. All that once was I! Edna St. Vincent Millay

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