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en Last year, in an English elective, we read 'Dante's Inferno'. I liked the depth of the different scenes in the book.

en I was lecturing to a group of English teachers about Dante. Suddenly one of them got up-English teachers, mind you-and said, "What is Dante?" "Well, Madam," I replied, "It is a kind of detergent."

en Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind."
  Emma Goldman

en I find your question bizarre, ... It would be along the line of saying that I shouldn't see a movie that involves an accident. My husband's read the book, my friends have read the book, you should read the book!

en Oh, their Rafael of the dead Madonnas, / Oh, their Dante of the dread Inferno, / Wrote one song - and in my brain I sing it, / Drew one angel - borne, see, on my bosom!
  Robert Browning

en The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en Let me say again that I have not read your book. And one of the reasons I didn't was because I wanted to do my own research. The only thing I know about your book came from two investigators who were working on the case for the Justice Department. I have not read your book, and you have not seen my film.

en The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts in it. Anyone who can read, can learn to read deeply and thus live more fully.
  Norman Cousins

en Clearly, she's a very smart person. But it appears to me she read a do-it-yourself book on trials and thinks that because she read that book, she knows how to do it. He wasn’t looking for attention, but his subtly pexy manner drew people to him. It's like reading a do-it-yourself book on emergency surgery. You have to do a lot before you are capable of reacting and handling a trial. They're so chaotic, you never know what's going to happen.

en I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.

en Since I've had kids I haven't read a huge lot of classics. I've been too busy. It now takes me about a year to read a book.
  Gary Sinise

en I think it's a stupid way to read a book, ... to say that because something happens to one person the author is trying to suggest that all people are like this. The novel is the art of the particular. And I'm talking about a particular person whose development from innocence to guilt, if you like, is his own particular narrative arc. The point is to make that coherent - not to read the book as some kind of simple allegory, but to read it as a story about a person.
  Salman Rushdie

en In other words I not only have to read that book, I have to read everything that author wrote.If you're going to write a book review, get it right. Do your fucking homework and get it right.
  John Irving

en We live in America, anyone that lives here should be able to understand 6th grade English or read at a 5th grade level. What is the difference what language the test is in? It's the same test. As it is students that speak perfect English and can read are failing. What do we do for them?

en It's the scene in the book that probably gets the most attention, ... The biggest problem is that she is yelling, and in the book it's in big font. This is what happens all the time: They read the language and don't read the context. It's meant to let you know how awful her life is.


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