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What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
Malcolm Forbes
'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
Mark Twain
How well he's read, to reason against reading!
William Shakespeare
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
Dorothy Allison
The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.
Ted Turner
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I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
Charles Kuralt 
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs
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You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.
Richard Russo
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
Charles Darwin
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I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra.
James Laughlin
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I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate.
Helen Hunt
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It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare for moments of revelation that can be read entirely on actors' faces without dialogue.
Robert Towne
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Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan
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Actually, every time I am back in New York, I read for as many plays as I can.
Chad Lowe
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