“I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will.”
Lewis H. Lapham (1935) American journalist
Source: Money And Class In America (1989), Chapter 2, Protocols of Wealth, p. 56
“Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.”
Source: Selected Letters
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“It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Continuous reading is the price that each author must pay.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
“I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.”
Aneurin Bevan (1897–1960) Welsh politician
Interview in The Times (29 March 1960), p. 7
1950s
“Sometimes providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.”
John Flavel (1627–1691) English Presbyterian clergyman
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 280.
“I must read.
I must read.
I must read.”
Mark Z. Danielewski book House of Leaves
Source: House of Leaves
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
Josephus Daniels, ambassador to Mexico, sent this quotation to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, January 1, 1936, in a note of New Year greetings, with this comment: "Here is an expression from Holmes which, if it has missed you, is so good you may find a use for it in one of your 'fireside' talks". Reported in Carroll Kilpatrick, ed., Roosevelt and Daniels (1952), p. 159.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
Matka Tereza (1910–1997) Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin
As quoted in Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light (2007) http://www.awakin.org/read/view.php?tid=189 by Brian Kolodiejchuk <!-- *If I ever become a saint, I will surely be one of 'darkness'. I will be absent from heaven for those in darkness on earth.<br>--> <br class="br">2000s
“Supply the link, and earth with Heaven will join
In one continued chain of endless life.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)
Context: Between the finite and the infinite
The missing link of Love has left a void.
Supply the link, and earth with Heaven will join
In one continued chain of endless life.
The Way (1913).