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One of the things that amazes me is the amount of functional illiteracy in this country... people can't read to get around, or people who can't read the newspaper but can barely read street signs. Edward Albert

Me People Signs Country One Of The Things Read Around Amazes Get Newspaper Barely Who Illiteracy Functional Street Amount Things

I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate. Edward Carpenter

Words Communicate Few Earth Though Possible Able Shall Over Like Read Going May Placed Should Body Grave Conscious Present

Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

You Master Live Books Read Them

I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well. Edward Hirsch

You Think Television Poetry Well Read Very While Watching Watching Television

The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry, is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader, and that meaning doesn't exist or inhere in poems alone. Edward Hirsch

I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language. It does demand a certain space in order to read it, and I think that space is somewhat threatened by the lack of attention that people have and the amount of time that they give to things. Edward Hirsch

I read a lot as a kid and in high school. Edward Hirsch

School Kid High High School Read Lot

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a poet is a maker. Before that, I thought a poet was someone who wrote about his own experiences. Edward Hirsch

Seriously Thought College Poet Before Own Way About Someone Poetry Until Also Wrote Read Devour Maker His Discovered Began Very Intense Experiences Really Who

I'd read about Los Angeles and this fact stuck in my mind: that the city gained 1,000 new people every day. In 1956! A thousand people every day! I felt: 'I want to be part of that.' Edward Ruscha

Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had an astonishing impact, reading it on my own and being my main company. I think Proust is the most intelligent person to ever have written a novel. Edward St Aubyn

Hero Slow Reading Own Think Astonishing Mine Impact My Own Main Had Written Most Read Reader Proust Go La Very Intelligent Intelligent Person Person Being Company Novel Ever

As we began to read more and more journals of men who had been in the Civil War and then been in the Indian Wars, we realized there was a whole universe of men whose souls had been shattered, whose lives had been utterly destroyed by what they had to do. Edward Zwick

War Men Universe Destroyed Indian Civil Civil War More More And More Had Journals Shattered Read Souls Been Began Realized Then Who Wars Whole Whose Lives Utterly

Finding oil is a multidisciplinary science. You need a lot of people - statisticians, engineers, and geologists, of course. And what I have learned in the past 30 years is that I read people better than I read books. Eike Batista

You Science People Better Past Books Finding Read Learned Course Years Lot Than Oil In The Past Engineers Need

The most exciting thing is to read a poem out loud for the first time. Eileen Myles

Time First Out Poem Exciting Most Read First Time Loud Thing

I love reviews. Anybody who tells you they don't read reviews is a liar. Elaine Stritch

Love You Liar Tells Read Reviews Anybody Who

I read everything, but particularly, growing up in a household where my mom was black and my dad was white, I remember really loving 'Ebony' and 'Essence.' Those magazines were the only place where I could see images of women who looked like me or my mom. Elaine Welteroth

Mom Me Women Remember Black White Everything Those See Magazines Only Could Like Looked Particularly Household Read Were Up Essence Where Place Loving Really Who Dad Growing Growing Up Images

The ability of humans to read meaning into patterns is the most defining characteristic we have. Eleanor Catton

Defining Characteristic Ability Most Read Patterns Meaning Humans

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life. Eleanor Roosevelt

Life Journey You Own Analyze Find About Something Only Through Read May Autobiographies Your Useful Lives Suggest

Nothing you'll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully phrased explanations for new students, math derived step by step, plenty of experiments as illustration, and test problems. Eliezer Yudkowsky

News You Science Problems Will Beauty Nothing Illustration Carefully Settled Plenty Students Step New Read Sheer Test Math Textbook Candle Hold Experiments Breaking Explanations Derived Ever

I like a novel to have a certain amount of dead time and filler - unremarkable scenery, descriptions of getting from point A to point B, dialogue in which not much is said - in between the parts that are electric. With a long work that you don't read in one sitting, I think that makes for the best reading experience. Elif Batuman

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Read enough about the dung beetle, and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining. Elif Batuman

Character Picture Patient Enough About Emerges Read Beetle Optimistic

I don't believe in being ashamed about not having read things. Elif Batuman

Believe About Having Read Being Ashamed Things

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