Reading Life Quotes

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  • She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been caught up in one such collection of people and their doings after the next…The pleasure of this sort of life – bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life – had made her isolation into a rich and even subversive thing. She inhabited one consoling or horrifying persona after another…That she was childless and husbandless and poor meant less once she picked up a book. Her mistakes disappeared into it. She lived with an invented force.

    Jobs   Mistake   Book  
  • Not only are we reading life code, we're beginning to copy it through cloning, and we're beginning to write, and in the measure that we do that, boy, you can build a lot of very powerful companies in a short period of time.

    Source: bigthink.com
  • The words of the Constitution... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.

    "Parliamentary Affairs". "The Supreme Court", Volume 3, No. 1, Winter 1949.
  • A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

    Reading   Ice   Fantasy  
    George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.521, Bantam
  • If your reading life and your friendships overlap, that's just a nice coincidence - a case where the conversation you're having with books and the conversation you're having with actual human beings happen to dovetail.

    Nice   Book   Reading  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

    'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16
  • I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.

    John Updike, James Plath (1994). “Conversations with John Updike”, p.113, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Throughout my reading life, I've enjoyed many memorable meals-if only fictionally. The oysters at dinner near the beginning of Anna Karenina, the dinner Nana throws for her overflowing guests in Zola's Nana, the walk through Les Halles for breakfast in Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, and nearly every meal in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt.

  • The worst thing to do is to die while reading LIFE magazine.

    Funny   Reading   Humor  
  • There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

    Children   Book   Reading  
  • To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

    Life   Book   Reading  
  • The man who never reads lives only one.

    Reading   Men   Ice  
    George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.521, Bantam
  • Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

    Book   Reading   Life Is  
    Ruth Rendell (2000). “A Judgement in Stone”, Vintage
  • When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

  • Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

    Funny   Life   Friendship  
    Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.28, St. Martin's Press
  • Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

    "How To Read A Book". Book by Mortimer J. Adler, 1940.
  • People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

    Funny   Life   Witty  
    Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"
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