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I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished. -- Norman Douglas
I like to take a long time over breakfast, and I can't bear to talk. If a guest is a breakfast talker it's very important to invite another so they can talk to each other. Otherwise they spoil the newspaper reading and everything else. -- Julian Fellowes
Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column. -- Dave Barry
Whitney and I have fun reading the newspaper sometimes. You'd be amazed at the places they say I've been. -- Bobby Brown
Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers. -- James Earl Jones
I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web. -- Alan Dean Foster
I'm a news junkie who's constantly reading newspapers and magazines. I look around and see what's happening in the world. -- Michael Franti
Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen. -- Bill Gates
We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. -- Henry Miller
I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked. -- Michael Pena
Two hours on television just doesn't automatically happen. I'm up early, I'm reading newspapers online, talking to my staff, coming up with ideas. -- Wolf Blitzer
One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to. -- Robert Fisk
Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug. -- Italo Calvino
A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper. -- Robert Rauschenberg
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Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht
People looking at advertisements or reading their local newspapers would have had no idea that what they were reading was bought and paid for with their tax dollars. -- George Miller
Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will happen. A novelist needs to feel what that is like. -- A. S. Byatt
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen. -- Irving Babbitt
I was reading newspaper front pages from the 1930s, and I was taken aback. I'm not naive about American history, but I was a bit knocked off my feet by things that used to be on the front pages of newspapers. -- Daniel Woodrell
When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool. -- Fred Durst
Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too. -- James Patterson
Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Don't do anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day. -- Joel Osteen
I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition. -- Richard Dawkins
When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A relatively primitive village in which there are still real feasts, common artistic shared expressions, and no literacy at all is more advanced culturally and more healthy mentally than our educated, newspaper-reading radio-listening culture. -- Erich Fromm

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