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"Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight." »Edna Ferber
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"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention." »Sir Francis Bacon
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"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention." »Francis Bacon
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"The only true love is love at first sight second sight dispels it." »Israel Zangwill
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"In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish." »S. I. Hayakawa
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"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one." »James Goldsmith
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"I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer." »Real Live Preacher
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"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." »Mark Twain
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"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be read once." »Cyril Connolly
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"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once." »Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
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"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely." »Hesketh Pearson
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"To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one." »Selwyn Champion
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"To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend to read it a second time is to meet an old one." »Selwyn Champion
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"Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read." »G. K. Chesterton
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"One thing is clear to me. You cant know everything youd like to know. You cant do everything youd like to do. You cant read everything youd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life." »Real Live Preacher
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"For aesthetics is the mother of ethics. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens." »Joseph Brodsky
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"What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind." »Thomas a Kempis
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"Perception is strong, sight is weak." »Miyamoto Musashi, "A Book of Five Rings"
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"As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see." »Richard Bach
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"Is there anything worse than being blind? Yes, a man with sight and no vision." »Helen Keller
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"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist." »Mark Twain
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"The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews." »William Faulkner
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"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist." »Mark Twain
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"The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us." »Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
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"In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth." »Publilius Syrus
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"The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision." »Helen Keller
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"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read." »Mark Twain
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