1 Cababe & Ellis' Q. B. D. Rep. 136.
Reg. v. Ramsey (1883)
“I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.”
“I have come not to teach but to awaken. Understand therefore that I lay down no precepts.”
The Universal Message (1958)
Context: I have come not to teach but to awaken. Understand therefore that I lay down no precepts.
Throughout eternity I have laid down principles and precepts, but mankind has ignored them. Man’s inability to live God’s words makes the Avatar’s teaching a mockery. Instead of practicing the compassion He taught, man has waged crusades in His name. Instead of living the humility, purity and truth of his words, man has given way to hatred, greed and violence.
Because man has been deaf to the principles and precepts laid down by God in the past, in this present Avataric form I observe Silence. You have asked for and been given enough words — it is now time to live them.
Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.”
Source: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Source: The Haunted Bookshop
“I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.”
Interviewed in Naim Attallah, Singular Encounters (Quartet Books, 1990), p. 142.
The Damned Mob of Scribbling Women http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/06/the-damned-mob-of-scribbling-women/239882/ (Jun 3, 2011) The Atlantic. http://www.theatlantic.com
Context: I'm looking to avoid a subtly demeaning subtext which holds that reading, say, is something you should do--like flossing or taxes or laundry. I don't want to speak for women writers, but I recoil at the idea of someone reading my book because they really should read a black author or two. I don't want to be an icebreaker at your corporation's Kwanzaa gathering.
