T Quotes
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“To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.”
“To read a character I'm not sympathizing with is generally quite a good, attractive proposition because I've got somewhere to go, I've got work to do, to try to understand why they behave like they behave, to relate entirely and understand them and to be completely emotionally connected. That is much more fun 99 percent of the time.”
“To read a lot of trash mixing the blood of war with business’s stench. To root out any happiness. To go out, and down, and on the road. To hesitate; to go on, and ahead, and back, and up the stairs, and in one’s room. On the way, to notice that the mountain is still there. To lie and sleep, deeply, heavily. To reproduce night’s sleep. To wake up, look through the window at green water, from the Bay to the mountain, and return to one’s self. To remember that war is devastating Irak. To feel pain.”
“To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To understand them you have to take knowledge to them; the knowledge that serves best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper itself.”
Source: The Enigma of Arrival
“To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.”
“To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. [....] The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.”
Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
“To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.”
Source: The Common Reader
“To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.”
Source: The Common Reader
“To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?”
Source: The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist: Understanding What Happens When We Write and Read Novels
“To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.”
“To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.”
“To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June”
“To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.”
Source: Alternating Current
“To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction of poetry.”
“To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.”
Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality
“To read and to not have been changed in the reading is to have picked up a book without it ever having picked you up.”
“To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences and they can just be rich and famous. Their job is to write. Some really don't realize that. And you can't write unless you read.”
“To read and write is a paradise.”
“To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it.”
“To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously, to allow what you're reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers, the so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?”
“To read books seriously is to be staggered by the knowledge of how many more books will remain beyond your ken. It’s like looking up at the star-filled sky.”
“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.”
“To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of Shakespeare, of the luminous wisdom of Goethe, actually passes into the personality of the reader; so that in contact with the chaos of ordinary life certain free and flowing outlines emerge, like the forms of some classic picture, endowing both people and things with a grandeur beyond what is visible to the superficial glance.”
“To read Helen Macdonald's memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at your door, trailing all the windy, feral outdoors into your living room.”
“To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key.”
Source: Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman
“To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, ["] and to preach there-from that, "In the sweat of other mans faces shalt thou eat bread," to my mind can scarcely be reconciled with honest sincerity.”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“To read is human, to review is divine.”
“To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.”
Source: Ways of Going Home
“To read is to detect, observe and analyse the meaning between and within words and letters”
“To read is to dream, guided by someone else's hand. To read carelessly and distractedly is to let go of that hand. To be only superficially learned is the best way to read well and be profound.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“To read is to empower,
To empower is to write,
To write is to influence,
To influence is to change,
To change is to live".”
“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.”
“To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.”
“To read is to renew thy mind.”
“To read is to spark thought, to think is to gain
understanding, to understand is to inspire
action, and to act is to ignite transformation.
Transformation, in turn, sets in motion a
powerful cycle of growth.”
Source: Dismantled: A Theory of Broken Mindsets—A Blueprint of Infinite Futures
“To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another”
Source: The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work
“to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing”
Source: Small World
“To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.”
“To read is to voyage through time.”
“To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.”
“To read Lucia St. Clair Robson is to learn while being thoroughly entertained. Last Train from Cuernavaca puts us through the tragic violence and political treachery of the Mexican Revolution and its consequences so intimately that we feel hunger, lust, thirst, grief, and saddle sores, and admire anew the awesome durability and courage of the people of Mexico-- especially the women.”
“To read me you have to think plurally and feel planetary.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.”
“To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.”
“To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.”
Source: Septimus
“To read quotations is to live in a planet with multiple suns!”
“To read religious sacred text is not to receive a command, but to enter a conversation already in progress.”
Source: The Uncharted Mind
“To read temple drawings, start with the Neter. Often the Neter is offering the Ankh to the King's nose (you), giving you the breath of life. Every breath inhaled is the most diving gift you could receive. Through our breath, we have contact with the divine energy of the creator, whether we are aware of it or not.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.”
“To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.”