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reading
I think that's not reading because there's nothing there to be read, Harold Bloom
reading writing imagination
Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal! Robert Creeley
reading mean kids
The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.
reading sea library
We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it. Richard Dawkins
reading character may
Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors. Richard Whately
reading ideas excellence
My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I've lost what's really there been seduced by someone else's standard of beauty or by the sitter's own idea of the best in him. That's not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest. Richard Avedon
reading fiction
The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry. Reynolds Price
reading mean essence
Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God’s essence. As one Sufi master has argued, why spend time reading a love letter (by which he means the Quran) in the presence of the Beloved who wrote it? Reza Aslan
reading society literature
The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles. Raymond Chandler
society culture littles
General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming. William Bolitho
society impossible sometimes
It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob. William Makepeace Thackeray
society
Cinema is a reflection of its own society. Shohreh Aghdashloo
society may next
The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next. James Russell Lowell
society deceiving deceived
The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led. Eric Hoffer
society thousand ten
These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand. James F. Cooper
society
Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The? Keith Waterhouse
society too-much needs
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable. Moliere
society skins demand
The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this. Mark Twain
literature great-work genre
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one. Walter Benjamin
literature records discontent
literature is the record of our discontent. Virginia Woolf
literature motto following
To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue. Vladimir Nabokov
literature moral censorship
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. William O. Douglas
literature prophet prove
Jesters do often prove prophets. Joseph Addison
literature ends myth
For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end. Jorge Luis Borges
literature
One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.
literature affection ailments
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same. Jonathan Swift
literature poison beast
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.