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Genet had been right at least about one thing. Blacks should be used to play whites. For centuries we had probed their faces, the angles of their bodies, the sounds of their voices and even their odors.Often our survival had depended on the accurate reading of a white man's chuckle or the disdainful wave of a white woman's hand.
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men, he should have known no more than other men.
De los libros el luminoso plectro dir|ase que pasa a ser l|a del recto, pues despue s de tanto leer sin tasa nada ha quedado en casa. The luminous plectrum of books can be said to become a portion of the rectum, since after so much eager reading not a thing remains at home.
Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believenot empirically, alas, but only theoreticallythat for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.
There are worse crimes than burning books.One of them is not reading them.
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
Reading is the basics for all learning.
This isnot to pretend that reading is a passive act.On the contrary, it is highly creative, or re-creative; itself an art.
'Orses and dorgs is some men's fancy. They're wittles and drink to melodging, wife, and children reading, writing and 'rithmeticsnuff, tobacker, and sleep.
Washington is a town where more people probably contemplate writing a book than finish reading one.
War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
So have I loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.
Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.
As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
The world that is a book is devoured bya reader who is a letter in the world's text; thus a circular metaphor is created for the endlessness of reading; We are what we read.
It isclassic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines.
Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.
If your daughters are inclined to love reading, do not check their inclination by hindering them of the diverting part of it. It is as necessary for the amusement of women as the reputation of men; but teach them not to expect anyapplause from it Ignorance is as much the fountain of vice as idleness, and indeed generally produces it. People that do not read or work for a livelihood have many hours they know not how to employ, especially women, who commonly fall into vapours or something worse.
I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Moore Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.
Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
They have no education, no taste for reading, no housewifery, nor, indeed, any earthly occupation but that ofdressingtheirhair, andadorningtheirbodies.Theyhate walking, and would never go abroad, if they were not stimulated by the vanityof being seen Nothing can be more parsimonious than the economy of these people. They live upon soup and bouille, fish and salad.
But reading is not idlenessit is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless. It is the immortal spirit of the dead realised within the bodies of the living. It is sacramental.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine;theyare the life, the soul of reading;take them out of this book for instance,you might as well take the book along with them.
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