Reading Quotes

When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think.

I'm sitting in a laundromat, reading about myself sitting in a laundromat, reading about myself. My head hurts.

"What the hellya reading?" he said.
"Goddam book."
He shoved my book back with his hand so that he could see the name of it. "Any good?" he said.
"This sentence I'm reading is terrific." I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.

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J. D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye

Books, Literature

Sarcastic Quotes

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

Books are nice, aren’t they? With just one sentence you can get lost in all sorts of dreams. The way I think of it, literature allows the reader’s consciousness to deeply relish the author and be closer to him.

If I coud I woud sit down and reed all the time.

I find TV very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.

My girlfriend always laughs during sex—no matter what she’s reading.

It's not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting ideas and thinking.

The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. "Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?" he asked.
"Begin at the beginning," the King said gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop."

My father always says: «Never trust anyone who has a TV bigger than their bookshelf». So I make sure I read.

— My friend told me it's the hardest book in the English language. I mean, not the hardest, but the hardest one that you can actually read. I thought to myself, if I can get through it, I could probably read the rest.
— How long have you been reading it?
— Six years.

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Enough

Slim Hiller

Robbie (cop and associate of Mitch)

Books, Literature

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

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George Herbert

Motivational Quotes

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

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Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Lord Henry Wotton

Beauty

Wisdom

I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.

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