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“I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large extent, whether it's what we're listening to, what we're watching, what we're reading - it can have very little to do with one's immediate cultural environment. We are in a global culture in that respect.”

Thinking Littles Matter Culture Reading Environment Listening

Author:David Sylvian

“I think every citizen in Burlington has a right to voice their opinion and participate in the local political process no matter who they are or what they are or where they come from or what their religious beliefs are. But for me to base all of my decisions based on my reading of the Holy Bible just isn't going to happen.”

Thinking Matter Happens Political Reading Belief Process Voice Religious Decision Opinion Citizens Holy Bible Locals Religious Belief Holy Bible

Author:Tim Scott

“From Obama's book, "The Audacity of Hope:" "I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation or health insurance coverage simply because the people they love are of the same sex - nor am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount."”

“My dad was in the Swedish armed forces, he was always reading up on different weapons from the Americans and Soviets. When I was a kid, I was in bed looking at his books, reading about the Red Army. So I was very aware of it. I had an interest in military matters ever since.”

Book Different Matter Kids Reading Force Interest Military Dad Bed Weapons Red Army My Dad Book Reading Armed Forces Swedish Red Army

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“I think people are trying out ideas with the new technology and it's too early to say where it's going exactly. But again, whether it's digital or paper, it doesn't matter. It's words that somebody is reading and getting an experience out of that reading. That's all that really matters.”

People Thinking Trying Ideas Matter Reading Technology Paper Digital New Technology

Author:Paul Auster

“I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.”

Matter Reading Realizing Doubt Changed Revolution Essentials Russia Fallen Soviet Regimes Gogol

Author:Malcolm Muggeridge

“If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.”

Ifs Doe Matter Helping Reading Poet Habit Clarity Obscurity

Author:Randall Jarrell

“When you read a book, you generate beta waves irrespective of the book's content. But if you look up from it, and start watching TV - it doesn't matter what the content of the program is - the beta waves disappear and you start processing alpha and theta waves. These are the same waves that you generate during meditation. Reading is primarily left hemisphere and watching television is primarily right hemisphere. Now how could that not have a major effect on our culture?”

Ifs Looks Book Matter Culture Reading Left Meditation Effects Television Tvs Majors Program Wave Disappear Look Up Processing Hemisphere Alphas Watching Tv Watching Television Beta Theta

Author:Leonard Shlain

“Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore.”

Source: Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version

“We like books that have a lot of dreck in them, matter which presents itself as not wholly relevant (or indeed, at all relevant) but which, carefully attended to, can supply a kind of "sense" of what is going on. This "sense" is not to be obtained by reading between the lines (for there is nothing there, in those white spaces) but by reading the lines themselves looking at them and so arriving at a feeling not of satisfaction exactly, that is too much to expect, but of having read them, of having "completed" them.”

Kind Book Matter Feelings Reading Lines Space White Too Much Satisfaction Relevant Arriving Between The Lines White Space

Author:Donald Barthelme

“I must suppose that reading wonderful writers may, inadvertently, teach an avid reader a great deal -- not only about life and other matters, but about how to write. Therefore doubtless I have benefited from frequent immersions in the glowing genius of others. It would be nice to think so. (I do actually think so). But to improve my skills will never be the prompting force of my reading -- that's just literary lust.”

Thinking Writing May Matter Would Be Reading Force Deals Teach Nice Wonderful Reader Genius Skills Lust Being Nice Glowing Avid Immersion

Author:Tanith Lee

“Reading in the third millennium B.C. may therefore have been a matter of hearing the cuneiform, that is, hallucinating the speech from looking at its picture symbols, rather than visual reading of syllables in our sense.”

May Has Beens Matter Reading Speech Thirds Hearing Symbols Visuals Millennium Syllables Cuneiform

Book:The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

“The strength of film is its accessibility and immediacy. But the strength of books is that freedom to really depict anything you want because people are going to be reading it in private. So, I'm always trying to write with the immediacy and the constant motion of film but I'm also trying to write with the complete freedom of subject matter that books have.”

People Want Writing Trying Book Matter Film Reading Subjects Constant Always Trying Subject Matter Accessibility Immediacy Complete Freedom

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do”

Giving Book Matter Reading

Author:Ann Patchett

“After a certain age our memories are so intertwined with one another that what we are thinking of, the book we are reading, scarcely matters any more. We have put something of ourselves everywhere, everything is fertile, everything is dangerous, and we can make discoveries no less precious than in Pascal's Pensées in an advertisement for soap.”

Thinking Book Matter Age Certain Reading Memories Dangerous Discovery Pens Soap Our Memories Fertile Advertisements Intertwined Pascal

Book:The captive, The fugitive

Source: The captive, The fugitive

“I thought, maybe the difference between white folks and colored is just this matter of reading and writing. I made up my mind I would know my letters.”

Knows Writing Mind Made Matter Reading Differences White Letters Folks Reading And Writing

Author:Mary McLeod Bethune

“For though there never was so much reading matter put before the public, there was never less actual 'reading' in the truest and highest sense of the term than there is at present.”

Matter Reading Term Highest Truest

Book:Free Opinions, Freely Expressed on Certain Phases of Modern Social Life and Conduct

Source: Free Opinions, Freely Expressed on Certain Phases of Modern Social Life and Conduct

“But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything's handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be worked at, they just spoon-feed you. The picture, the sound, the scenery, the atmospheric music in case you haven't understood what the director's on about... The creaking door that tells you to be stiff. You have to imagine it all when you're reading.”

Different Matter Reading Sound Cases Imagine Doors Havens Tvs Directors Understood Cinema Plates Spoons Scenery

Author:Daniel Pennac

“Reading reassures us that no matter how alone we might feel, there are many others - spread as wide as history itself - who have felt the same way we have, who have occupied the rooms we find ourselves locked in at various points of our lives.”

Way Feels Matter Might Reading Felt Rooms Our Lives Various Spread Wide Locked

Author:Simon Van Booy

“A Crime So Monstrous is a remarkably brave and unflinching piece of reportage and storytelling. Ben Skinner bears witness, sharing stories so unsettling, so neglected, so chilling they will leave you shaking with anger. This should be required reading for policy makers around the world - and, for that matter, anyone concerned about the human condition.”

“How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if astranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious--insolent & whimsical I must appear!--one moment flighty and half mad,--the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Doe Real Matter Moments Reading Next Half Humour Mad Simplicity Melancholy Sole Journal Recommendations Capricious Whimsical Worth Reading Insolent

Author:Fanny Burney

“LOVE your taste in subject matter... perfect summer reading!”

Matter Reading Perfect Subjects Love You Taste Summer Subject Matter Summer Reading

Author:Mark Hamill

“Terrifying. . . . A Dark Matter is populated with vivid, sympathetic characters, and driven by terrors both human and supernatural. It's the kind of book that's impossible to put down once it has been picked up. It kept me reading far into the night. Straub builds otherworldly terror without ever losing touch with his attractive cast of youngsters, who age beautifully. Put this one high on your list.”

Humans Kind Has Beens Book Matter Character Age Night Reading Dark Impossible Losing Casts Terror Driven Lists Attractive Vivid Sympathetic Youngsters Dark Matter

Author:Stephen King

“I've been reading Peter Straub since I was a teenager, and his work is hardwired into my brain. A Dark Matter contains echoes of all that has been great about Straub's previous work and builds upon it. This Rashomon-like tale is as spooky and frightening as anything he has written, but it's also an intense and moving celebration of love. Out of the darkness comes, ultimately, a surprising and haunting sense of joy.”

Has Beens Matter Moving Joy Reading Dark Brain Darkness Written Intense Tales Teenager Celebration Surprising Peter Frightening Echoes Haunting Spooky Dark Matter Previous Work

Author:Dan Chaon

“When you wrote it didn't matter if hysteria sometimes came up in your face and voice (unless, of course, you let it find its way into your "literary voice") because writing was done in merciful privacy and silence. Even if you were partly out of your mind it might turn out to be all right: you could try for control even harder than Blanche Dubois was said to have tried, and with luck you could still bring off a sense of order and sanity on the page for the reader. Reading, after all, was a thing done in privacy and silence too.”

Source: Young Hearts Crying

“As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language.”

Stills Book Matter Reading Language Interesting Sheer Dictionary Casual Most Interesting Interesting Book

Author:Albert J. Nock

“No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience. To read is intimate. It's almost masturbatory.”

Way May Matter Reading Novel Determine Enormous Intimate

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“No matter how tight the shot is, if I'm narrating it too much, there's a barrier between you and the experience, because the process of reading a book, or watching a movie, or watching a play is that you're watching a dream.”

Ifs Book Matter Play Dream Reading Process Too Much Shots Barriers

Author:Clark Gregg

“When I re-read the Odyssey, it felt like I was reading PD James or Minette Walters - you feel that you are sharing in something that hundreds of millions of people have read with love, and I think that this is worth holding onto. It is not a matter of canonical texts or elitism, which the universities are trying to make us wary about. It is about shared language and metaphor and experience and imagery and that is all good.”

People Thinking Feels Trying Matter Reading Language Felt Millions University Metaphor Imagery Holding On Elitism Odyssey

Author:Robert Dessaix

“A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.”

Matter Reading Novel Argument Impression

Book:Tess of the D'urbervilles

Source: Tess of the D'urbervilles

“I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not only when he's written it but a couple of weeks later. Then he should see if it pleases anyone else, by sending it to the kind of magazine he likes reading.”

Ifs Thinking Should Trying Kind Matter Young Reading Written Week Produce Poet Couple Please Likes Magazines

Author:Philip Larkin

“It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.”

Writing Matter Reason Turns Reading Style Programming

Book:JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts

Source: JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts

“Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.”

Thinking Book Different Matter Reading Make You Think Different Books

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“Years ago I read an interview with Paula Fox in which she said that in writing, truth is just as important as story. Reading that interview was the first time I really understood that there's no point in trying to impress people with my cleverness when I can just try to write honestly about what matters most to me.”

“If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but a small matter whether you read with anyone or not. I did not read with anyone. Get the books, and read and study them till you understand them in their principal features; and that is the main thing. It is of no consequence to be in a large town while you are reading. I read at New Salem, which never had three hundred people living in it. The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places.”

People Ifs Book Matter Done Three Reading Understanding Half Study Hundred Consequence Capacity Towns Determined Lawyer Features Principal Salem

Book:The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

“You gain all of the rights and privileges and respects that are afforded the majority, and that's ultimately what matters for your kids, or anybody - because we're all innocent of the fact that we are the way we are. But it also means the ways that you coped, and the languages and narratives and points of view that you had no choice but to make from the sidelines - and that often carried with them really acute readings of dominant society - those no longer have the same need.”

Way Needs Mean Matter Facts Kids Choices Reading Language Views Rights Gains Majority Privilege Point Of View Innocent Narrative What Matters Dominant Sidelines Rights And Privileges

Author:Todd Haynes

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