#read

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s? ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#generous #how #less #politics #possible

I am convinced that people with such wounds will be quite ready to co-operate in a safe and painless experiment in the interests of humanity as a whole. ↗

— Robert Barany

#co-operate #convinced #experiment #humanity #i

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves. ↗

— Russell Banks

#books #finish #lists #more #relative

But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#comic #comic books #i #like #little

Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice. ↗

— Trevor Brooking

#chance #get #played #second #second chance

The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow. ↗

— John Ciardi

#deserve #deserves #give #him #honest

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#authorship #difficulties #find #honest #honest men

As soon as Young read my statements and saw clearly what I was saying, he stopped communicating with me. ↗

— Tony Conrad

#communicating #i #me #read #saw

It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already. ↗

— Tom Cora

#difficulty #end #find #greatest #seems

I'm a lousy reader. ↗

— Broderick Crawford

#lousy #reader