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One must read poetry with one's nerves. -- Wallace Stevens
I must read. I must read. I must read. -- Mark Z. Danielewski
Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge. -- Henry Ward Beecher
An intensely gripping narrativeexpertly crafted and totally addictivea must read! -- Maggie Reese
We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure. -- J. C. Ryle
Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years. -- C. S. Lewis
You must read a lot of personal essays - you needn't reinvent the wheel. -- Phillip Lopate
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. -- Emile M. Cioran
Indie authors write, design, sell. Like magic, skip one and you make must read vanish. -- Temple Emmet Williams
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Ministers must read. We are required to read not as a luxury but as a necessity. -- Haddon W. Robinson
We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard. -- Karl Barth
Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong. -- Tamora Pierce
The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP. -- John Hersey
The Phoenix Project is a must read for business and IT executives struggling with the growing complexity of IT. -- Jim Whitehurst
Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. -- Martin Cruz Smith
The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves. -- Paracelsus
If we are to know God, we must read His words, for therein He stands revealed to the honest in heart. -- J. Richard Clarke
One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked. -- Karl Kraus
The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning. -- Matthew Henry
We must read, mediate and affirm the writings of Holy Scriptures, to partake in the divine nature and overcome the struggles of life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them. -- Thomas de Quincey
The book one must read to learn natural sciences is the book of nature. The book from which to learn religion is your own mind and heart. -- Swami Vivekananda
Anyone who would understand the Reagan victory of 1980 and the movement that eliminated the Soviet Union and revitalized America must read-indeed must study-Craig Shirley's brilliant, comprehensive work. -- Newt Gingrich
A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he must be solitary. -- Richard Jefferies
If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I'm investing in REWORK every time. A must read for every entrepreneur. -- Mark Cuban
As far as cuisine is concerned one must read everything, see everything, hear everything, try everything, observe everything, in order to retain in the end, just a little bit. -- Fernand Point
I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you. -- Tom Baker
If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the hopes of men the world over. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Famed value investor Guy Spier has managed to write what is both a gripping memoir and a fascinating study of what it takes to succeed in investing and life. A must read! -- John Mihaljevic
Eating chocolates or popping pills won't reduce depression.Instead, one must read Gita. This will help relieve the stress and depression in life. It will help in dealing with challenges of life. -- Sushma Swaraj
No stops are ever inserted in Acts of Parliament, or in deeds; but the Courts of law, in construing them, must read them with such stops as will give effect to the whole. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
There are two answers to the things they will teach you about our land: the real answer and the answer you give in school to pass. You must read books and learn both answers. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Just as you must eat, drink, and breathe to live, you must read the Bible, pray, and be involved in a church to stay spiritually alive and vital. You never will outgrow these things. -- Greg Laurie
Experts must read the patterns and judge their usefulness as evidence. Under any of numerous pressures, an expert may wish to misread a pattern or even to alter it. Americans had a touching trust in "experts". -- Dean Koontz
The Victorian Internet' is a must read for anyone interested in the history of technology and in the cycles of hype, boom, and bust that seem to only quicken with each new wave of innovation. Highly recommended. -- John Battelle
There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life. -- Lin Yutang
Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old. -- C. S. Lewis
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All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes. -- Isabel Allende
To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style. -- Aldous Huxley
Fascinating, often hilarious, always devastatingly truthful, The Inconvenient Indian is destined to become a classic of historical narrative. For those who wish to better understand Native peoples, it is a must read. For those who don't wish to understand, it is even more so. -- Joseph Boyden
When I read students' attempts at creative writing it is obvious immediately that most of them have not read much or widely. The aspiring writer must read everything he or she can to appreciate the myriad ways words are used and to what effect. -- Julius Lester
Helen Tse tells a gripping tale of struggle, laughter, love and food that marks Sweet Mandarin as a must read book. It is not only an immigrant account of life but also a universal touching story of survival that will move your soul as well. -- Ken Hom
Patrick Cheng's Radical Love is not only an excellent introduction to LGBT theology but an important contribution to the discipline of theology and the life of the church. It is a must read for anyone who cares about the health of the church and theology today. -- James H. Cone
In the tradition of Black Hawk Down, Malcolm MacPherson vividly brings to life this harrowing story of courage, pathos, and war at its grittiest. For military history buffs, or those interested in the front lines of the war on terror, Roberts Ridge is a must read. -- Jay Winik
Anyone who fears, as I do, that today's public schools are dangerously close to being irrelevant must read this book. The authors provide a road map-and a lifeline-showing how schools can prosper under the most difficult conditions. It is a welcome departure from all the school bashing. -- John Merrow
Although not initially of his own choosing, Michael Mann has been the most important, resilient, and outspoken warrior in the climate battle--responding to threats and persecution with courage and resolve every step of the way. Anyone who cares about the climate issue must read his fascinating--and enraging--story. -- Chris Mooney
What sets the The Next Web apart is a focus on the internet as a key driver for a global market. Their international view is unique, making their blogs a must read and their conferences a must attend for professionals like me who do business around the globe -- Werner Vogels
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false. -- Robert Walpole
Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else. -- Peter Greenaway
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. -- Thomas Jefferson
A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long. -- Sloan Wilson
What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy? -- Princess Diana
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke. -- Rush Limbaugh
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. -- Toni Morrison
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. -- Henry David Thoreau
To become a novelist, the most crucial thing one must do is read, read and read again - gradually you begin to think like a writer. Ideas are not found - they are shaped. -- Avi
When I read about genetics, I see breakthroughs every day. And while I'm trying to learn more about behavioral science, I must say that I don't feel I get tremendous intellectual stimulation from most of the things I read. -- Harold E. Varmus
I think sometimes parents and teachers can push children away from reading by telling them it's something they must do, the same way they must eat their greens and must pass their exams in school. Poppycock! Read or don't read - that's your call. -- Darren Shan
To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism. -- Herbert Read
One must be an inventor to read well. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards. -- John Flavel
One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes. -- Harlan Coben
Everyone must be given the opportunity to think, read and write. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand. -- Babe Ruth
Every child must be taught how to think, read and write. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it. -- Adrienne Rich
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written. -- Henry David Thoreau
Political Wire is one of the absolute must-read sites in the blogosphere. -- Glenn Reynolds
I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so. -- Oscar Wilde
Nature's book always contains the truth; we must only learn to read it. -- Sepp Holzer
A mind is like a puzzle; you must unlock it to read its hidden secrets. -- Melissa de la Cruz
You must not only pray and fast, but read and mediate on word of God. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. -- Hal Abelson
One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Hell must be a place where you are only allowed to read what you agree with. -- John Mortimer
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing. -- Oscar Wilde
We must think ourselves empty when coming to the text of scripture and read ourselves full. -- Alistair Begg
Emotional Freedom is a must-read for anyone who's tired of feeling frustrated, lonely, or stopped by fear. -- Deepak Chopra
We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own. -- Hosea Ballou
A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip. -- Samuel Rogers
When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it -- Kathy Acker
In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same. -- Aristotle
Terrific! A successful blend of genres, complex and fascinating characters, and loads of suspense make 24 Bones a must-read. -- Nate Kenyon
My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately -- George Bernard Shaw
The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life... -- Robert Henri
I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page. -- Tom Wolfe
Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs. -- Sheldon Vanauken
When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me". -- Soren Kierkegaard
Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't. -- Sean Covey
Other books we may read and criticise. To the Scriptures we must bow the entire soul, with all its faculties. -- Edward Norris Kirk
Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise. -- Michael Morpurgo
The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned. -- Giacomo Casanova
Who or what inspires you?" "I must admit that I often read my own articles in scientific journals and inspire myself. -- Eoin Colfer
Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform. -- George W. Bush
Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied. -- Ngaio Marsh
We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure. -- John Lubbock
Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man. -- Thomas Paine
A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers. -- Margaret Fuller
Ausonius must be read to be believed! As poet, no subject is too trivial for him; as courtier, no flattery too excessive. -- Decimius Magnus Ausonius
He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read. -- Peter Kropotkin
I must have been about 11 when I read the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, which I read, over and over again. -- Steven Knight
The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside -- Samuel Johnson
The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you. -- William Dean Howells
I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. -- Groucho Marx
A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly forestall them. -- Rudolf Flesch
The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you. -- Cotton Mather
Phew am exhausted. Just read about something called "the offside rule". Too much for my tiny brain. Must be damaged from nail polish fumes -- Kelly Cates
Easy to read, yet filled with wisdom that will penetrate your heart, this book puts the power back in your hands. It's a must have. -- Marci Shimoff
I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach. -- Denise Mina

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