Readings Quotes (page 6)

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• depression
• him
• attention

Reading Mr. Malcolm Muggeridge's brilliant and depressing book, "The Thirties", I thought of a rather cruel trick I once played on a wasp. He was sucking jam on my plate, and I cut him in half. Hr paid no attention, merely went on with his meal, while a tiny stream of jam tricked out of his oesophagus. Only when he tried to fly away did he grasp the dreadful thing that had happened to him. It is the same with modern man. The thing that has been cut away is his soul, and there was a period -... George Orwell

• reading
• integrity
• intellectual

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantiv? my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity. Jonathan Franzen

• reading
• thinking
• read

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own. Arthur Schopenhauer

• walking
• friend
• look

Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach. Roberto Bolano

• life
• reading
• creativity

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." - Stephen King

• future
• reading
• walking

Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity. Henry David Thoreau

• book
• reading
• new

Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book. C. S. Lewis

• reading
• giving
• stay

Reading gives us someplace to go when we must stay where we are. Mason Cooley

• reading
• anything
• anything else

Reading has given me more satisfaction than anything else. Bill Blass

• reading
• humanity
• thoughts

Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought. Iris Murdoch

• pain
• reading
• star

Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure. Friedrich Nietzsche

• reading
• perpetually
• inviting

Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Alan Bennett

• good
• reading
• time

Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually. William Ellery Channing

• reading
• thinking
• library

Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice. Will Durant

• learning
• reading
• basic

Reading is the basics for all learning. George W. Bush