Well Read Quotes (13 quotes)

“He knows everything.He's just so ridiculously well-read that it's ridiculous! You just sit there and you feel quite a worm in comparison.”
― Brett Anderson Suede

tags: david-bowie, well-read

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“For several years, while I searched for, found, and studied black women writers, I deliberately shut O'Connor out, feeling almost ashamed that she had reached me first. And yet, even when I no longer read her, I missed her, and realized that though the rest of America might not mind, having endured it so long, I would never be satisfied with a segregated literature. I would have to read Zora Hurston and Flannery O'Connor, Nella Larsen and Carson McCullers, Jean Toomer and William Faulkner, before I could begin to feel well read at all.”
― Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

tags: literature, perspective, reading, segregation, well-read

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“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

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“It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: able, aesthetic, alluring, appealing, arresting, artistic, astute, attractive, beautiful, beauty, beguiling, bewitching, brainy, bright, brilliant, canny, charming, clever, cook, cultivated, cultured, cute, decorative, delightful, discerning, divine, drop-dead-gorgeous, easy-on-the-eye, educated, elegant, engaging, enlightened, erudite, exquisite, foxy, gifted, glamorous, good-looking, gorgeous, graceful, handsome, hot, humor, humour, hunky, insightful, intellect, intelligent, intuitive, killer, kitchen, knowledgeable, learned, lovely, magnificent, perceptive, perspicacious, prepossessing, pretty, quick-on-the-uptake, quick-witted, satire, scholarly, sex, smart, striking, stunning, talented, well-educated, well-informed, well-read, winsome-ravishing, woman, women

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“In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if we live our lives in a noisy restaurant and can't have the intimate conversation we most yearn for.”
― Steve Leveen, The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life: How to Get More Books in Your Life and More Life from Your Books

tags: guide, reading, well-read

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“Is it really ten ladies dancing?" Lillian asked him, and Swift grinned.
"My lady, I've never been able to remember any part of that song."
"You know," Annabelle said contemplatively, "I've always understood why the swans are swimming and the geese are a-laying. But why in heaven's name are the lords a-leaping?"
"They're chasing after the ladies," Swift said reasonably.
"Actually I believe the song was referring to Morris dancers, who used to entertain between courses at long medieval feasts," Daisy informed them.
"And it was a leaping sort of dance?" Lillian asked, intrigued.
"Yes, with longswords, after the manner of primitive fertility rites."
"A well-read woman is a dangerous creature," Swift commented with a grin, leaning down to press his lips against Daisy's dark hair.”
― Lisa Kleypas, A Wallflower Christmas

tags: daisy-and-matthew, daisy-bowman, daisy-swift, matthew-swift, twelve-days-of-christmas, wallflowers, well-read

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“I loved women the way I loved books. Ravenously, as fast and as many as I could lay my hands on. Reading indiscriminately in every genre and savoring my favorites again. Slowly.”
― G.L. Morrison, Chiaroscuro Kisses

tags: book, book-lovers, books, love, lovers, promiscuity, reading, sex, well-read

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“My definition of “reading” may be different from the average person’s definition. I know
people who “read” all the time— book after book, word for word—but I would not call them well-read. They do have a mass of knowledge, but their brain does not know how to divide it
up and catalog the material they have read. They cannot separate a book and identify what
is valuable and what is worthless for them. They retain some in their mind forever, but
cannot see or understand the other parts at all.
Reading is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. In the first place, it should help to
fulfill an individual’s personal framework and give each person the tools and materials a
man needs in his job or profession, whether it is for daily necessity, simple physical
fulfillment, or higher destiny. In the second place, reading should give a man a general
picture of the world.”
― Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

tags: reading, well-read

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“I was well-read but perhaps that only made me stupid.”
― Richard Smyth, Wild Ink

tags: books, intelligence, knowledge, philosophy, richard-smyth, stupidity, well-read, wild-ink, wisdom

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“The writer must know something about the world outside books—whether his or the books of the others. At the same time, he must also be thoroughly acquainted with the world inside books. Words on a page are part of real life. They cannot be substituted for the whole, but they cannot be taken from it either.”
― Douglas Wilson, Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life

tags: books, experience, improvement, living-life, reading, well-read, writer, writing, writing-life

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“Her gaze fell on Rainey and she studied the bartender's ink. "That's an interesting tattoo on your forearm. Timshel. It's a quote from John Steinbeck's novel East of Eden."
Rainey looked momentarily taken aback. "You know it?"
"It means 'thou mayest'----a reminder that people always have a choice."
A curious sensation filled Liam's chest. It took a moment for him to identify it as pride. "I told you she was smart.”
― Sara Desai, The Dating Plan

tags: knowledgeable, timshel, well-read

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“History is my strong suit."
She had long ago taken it upon herself to read every book in the palace library, after discovering just how flimsy her education was. While the sons and daughters of palace courtiers came home from school each day brimming with new knowledge, Jasmine was kept at home with a tutor--- and her private lessons in etiquette and art weren't exactly the foundation that kings were built on. Sometimes Jasmine had the sneaking suspicion that Taminah never expected her to end up on the throne at all, that she was preparing the princess to be a royal wife instead. After all, she had mentioned more than once the possibility of Jasmine having a son in the future who could rule in her stead. But one other thing the older woman had done right was introduce Jasmine to books, especially Agrabah's myths and fables, in which terrors jumped from every page. Stories with heroes and demons so vivid, they could have been real.
After she had read all the stories she could get her hands on, Jasmine moved on to history texts and illustrated maps. Hers might have been an incomplete education, but those books allowed a sheltered princess to see some of the world, both real and imagined. And they gave her a window into the past.”
― Alexandra Monir, Realm of Wonders

tags: educated, fiction-and-history, princess-jasmine, well-read

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