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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. (Emil Cioran)
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. View quote
Mark Twain
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read. View quote
Frank Zappa
The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it. View quote
Carlo Goldoni
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. View quote
Samuel Johnson
To write is to read one's own self. View quote
Max Frisch
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. View quote
Alvin Toffler
A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books. View quote
Andrei Tarkovsky
Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. View quote
Voltaire
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. View quote
Henny Youngman
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. (George Bernard Shaw)
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. View quote
Groucho Marx
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. View quote
David Ogilvy
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. View quote
Cyril Connolly
I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. View quote
Woody Allen
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity. View quote
Christopher Morley
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. View quote
Groucho Marx
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. (William Hazlitt)
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. View quote
Gore Vidal
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. View quote
Oscar Wilde
There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough. View quote
Irwin Shaw
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