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"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one."
"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."
"Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories."
"Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems."
"I’ll bet opening a store called Boobs and Books would increase literacy. I prefer a hands-on approach to learning."
"I want to read the employment section of the Bible. I think it’s simply called Job."
"My advice to aspiring writers is to read more, write more, and network more. More, more, and more. Then, after you've done all that, do it some more."
"When the clock reads 3:00, I don’t call it three o’clock, I call it three hundred, and I remember the Spartans. At 3:01, however, I remember what I was doing at 2:59, and I get back to it."
"Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write ."
"Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read."
"I wish the military were the militerary. Less fighting and more reading."
"If I could convert books to wine, I’d start with The Grapes of Wrath. I’ve never read it, but maybe tonight I’ll be thirsty enough."
"I want to write a book so long that it will take the average person their whole life to read. It will be exactly the same length as the Bible."
"Reading makes you ready for the world. A man who doesn’t read is a man who is easily deceived. You must find that man and make him sign a contract, and you must do it before Satan does. Trust me, the profits are HUGE!"
"Every night I pray I whisper into a megaphone, not only so God is sure to hear, but also my neighbors, because I pray to God He’ll deliver pestilence and plague to the residents next door. I even tell God the exact address, as if He can’t read my heart. But it’s not for His benefit, it’s for my neighbors’."
"I find Bukowski to be so edgy, gritty, and daring that he oozes romance, and if couples read him in bed they would appreciate what they have."
"I curse in cursive. It's hard to read and harder take. But if you take it black, like coffee, then at least it may wake you up to the realities of life."
"I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in my books."
"Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light."
"My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices."
"The library was a little old shabby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in. She liked the combined smell of worn leather bindings, library past and freshly inked stamping pads better than she liked the smell of burning incense at high mass."
"Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine."
"A homeless man visited my store today. The few quarters that he had in his pocket he invested on books. I offered him free books, but he insisted on giving me his quarters. He walked away filled with joy as if he possessed the world's riches in his hands. In a way, he did. He left me smiling and knowing that he was wealthier than many others... (01-21-10)"
"Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them."
"Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice - read books."
"Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind."
"Your mind is your library of what you read."
"The sole/soul purpose of a book is to be read."
"When you read between the lines, you must have bloody good eyesight because I can't see a bloody thing!"
"Don't be afraid to be afraid. Have fear, and then conquer the shit out of it."
"There are no lungs like the ones that breathe poetry."
"If we read the Holy Scripture, we shall grow in our knowledge of Jesus Christ, the Saviour. And be filled with the fullness of God."
"If you read proverbs, you will find answers to every puzzle."
"What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing."
"Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot."
"I used to think I was the strangest person in the worldbut then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I doI would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too.well, I hope that if you are out there you read this and know that yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you."
"Turn the page, your heroine is still there, breathe, relax, life is beautiful: you're in a book!"
"The reader leaves his mark on the book, as the book leaves its mark on the reader."
"She might not have read many books. But when she reads a book, she swallows the very words. If you open the books on her shelves, you will find that the front and back covers encase white pages."
"If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second time."
"Life is a poem most people never read."
"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute."
"When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head constantly spin with riddles and rhymes and was his only job to put them down? What if he couldn’t get them to make sense, and no one, not even the person he cared for most, could have pleasure in reading it? What would he do?"
"Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It's how I feel after a good dinner. That's why I do it so often: It feels wonderful. The book is mind and I insert myself into it, cover it entire, ear my way through every last slash and dot. That's something you can do with a book, unlike television or movies or the Internet. You can eat it, or mark it, like a dog does on a hydrant."
"Life's adventures make great reading!"
"If I am looking for inspiration, then I read the religious scriptures."
"If we read, we shall renew our minds."
"If you can't write, read.If you can't read, walk.Or walk and read, then write."
"Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out."
"We awaken by asking the right questions."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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