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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 taxation
Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this. Rose Macaulay
reading different poetic
I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. Umberto Eco
reading mean games
To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.
fiction science-fiction science-love
I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction. Romola Garai
fiction feels qualified
I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified. William Gibson
fiction levels century
I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business. Robert Reed
fiction stories novelists
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror. Sarah Zettel
fiction larger-than-life life-is
Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one. Sarah McLachlan
fiction contemporary bits
If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it Warren Ellis
fiction problem unsolved-problems
Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems. Virginia Woolf
fiction facts
The truer the facts the better the fiction.
fiction stories novel
A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories. Walker Percy
taxation might wonder
Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper? Robert Orben
taxation benefits taxes
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied. Ralph Waldo Emerson
taxation finance budgets
The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome. James Madison
taxation should robbery
Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped. Frank Chodorov
taxation revolution citizens
In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation. Lyndon B. Johnson
taxation way gains
The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work. Calvin Trillin
taxation wealth taxes
We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax.
taxation citizens indirect
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without. Albert Camus
taxation earth territory
Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own. Thomas Jefferson