“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.”

— Elizabeth Hardwick

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Novelist, short story writer, literary critic 1916–2007

Mary Schmich (1953) American columnist

"Now Boarding At Any Newspaper, Magazine Or Book", http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-10-28/news/9810280139_1_reading-eskimo-woman-places Chicago Tribune, 28 October 1998; reprinted in The Best of Mary Schmich (2012) as "A Discount Ticket to Everywhere".

“Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 194.

“People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.”

A. J. Liebling (1904–1963) American journalist

The New Yorker, April 7, 1956.

“Poverty puts crime at a discount.”

Nicolas Chamfort (1741–1794) French writer

La pauvreté met le crime au rabais.
Maximes et Pensées (Van Bever, Paris :1923), #312
Reflections; alternately translated as: "Poverty sets a reduced price on crime"; in The Viking Book of Aphorisms (1962).

“People disagreeing everywhere you look
Makes you wanna stop and read a book”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II (1971), Watching the River Flow

“Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.”

Twyla Tharp (1941) American choreographer

Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“As Roland Barthes said, those who do not re-read condemn themselves to reading the same story everywhere: "they recognize what they already think and know."”

Bernard Williams (1929–2003) English moral philosopher

Source: Truth and Truthfulness (2002), p. 12

“It looks like it’s been furnished by discount stores.”

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929–1994) public figure, First Lady to 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy

On the White House; Quoted in A Hero for Our Time (1983) by Ralph G Martin

“Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under chairs, books that I have read, books that I have not read.”

Edna O'Brien book Country Girl

Source: Country Girl

“Ticket to the last station.”

Heinz Guderian (1888–1954) German general

Fahrkarte bis zur Endstation.
Shouted to his Panzertroops as they were passing him, indicating that they should go as far as they could; as quoted in Panzerkrieg : The Rise and Fall of Hitler's Tank Divisions (2002) by Peter McCarthy and Mike Syron, p. 83

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