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“Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with an equal attention to each word results in attention to mere words.”

Giving Should Results Attention Equal Pages Models Mere Curiosity Intense

Author:Ernest Dimnet

“While the climate crisis gathers front-page attention on a regular basis, people - even those who profess great environmental consciousness - continue to eat fish as if it were a sustainable practice.”

People Ifs Attention Consciousness Practice Fronts Pages Bases Crisis Climate Environmental Fishes

Author:Daniel Pauly

“Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain which the reader throws away. He only is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day.”

Source: Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works

“I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he read, and made clammy tracks along the page (or so I fully believed) like a snail.”

Made Book Character Reading Found Lines Interesting Attention Pages Track Fats Interesting Characters Snail

Book:Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“Open this notebook every day and write down half a page at the very least. If you have nothing to write down, then at least, following Gogol’s advice, write down that today there’s nothing to write. Always write with attention and look on writing as a holiday.”

Ifs Writing Looks Today Attention Half Advice Pages Following Holiday Notebook Gogol

Book:Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms

Source: Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms

“I don't watch the nightly newscasts on TV . . . nor do I watch the endless hours of people giving their opinion about things. I don't read the editorial pages; I don't read the columnists. It can be a frustrating experience to pay attention to somebody's false opinion.”

People Giving Hours Pay Attention Opinion Watches Tvs Pages Endless Pay Attention Frustrating Editorials Columnists

Author:George W. Bush

“Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.”

Different Enough Song Voice Imagination Attention Pages Ears Structure Sentences Dramatic Tone Prose Ingenuity

Book:The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

Source: The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

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