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Books And Reading Quotes
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. (Quote by - Cyril Connolly)
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body. (Quote by - Warren Buffett)
Writers are the main landmarks of the past. (Quote by - Edward G. Bulwer-lytton)
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense. (Quote by - Ethan Coen)
Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power. (Quote by - Michael Foot)
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. (Quote by - Anthony Burgess)
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden. (Quote by - Saint Augustine)
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. (Quote by - Jack Handy)
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. (Quote by - Warren Buffett)
Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. (Quote by - Wallace Stevens)
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. (Quote by - John Locke)
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. (Quote by - Thomas Merton)