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Letter "R" » Reading
«History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.»
Author: David C. McCullough
| About:
Books,
History,
Literature,
Reading
| Keywords:
attainments, betrayals, depravities, depths, heroes, monsters
«He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.»
Author: Richard Darman
| About:
Reading
«If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.»
Author: Roger Rosenblatt
| About:
Reading
«Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading»
«Hard writing makes easy reading.»
«Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading»
«For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.»
Author: Gloria Steinem
(Activist, Writer)
| About:
Reading
| Keywords:
comic, comic book, comic books, Daily News, editorials, put away
«He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.»
«He does not write at all whose poems no man reads»
«I can not live with out books.»
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