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Man is what he reads.

Man is what he reads.
– Joseph Brodsky

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  4. [T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis. – Joseph Brodsky
  5. [T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you. – Joseph Brodsky
  6. I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced. – Lawrence Durrell
  7. If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of survival increase with each book one reads. – Sherman Alexie
  8. One reads so as not to believe everything one reads. – Aaron Haspel
  9. No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself. – Romain Rolland
  10. [Brodsky] loved cats, and sometimes for a greeting would meow. – Sigrid Nunez
  11. What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. – EM Forster
  12. If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads. – Franois Mauriac
  13. Never trust a man who reads only one book. – Arturo PrezReverte
  14. The wise man reads both books and life itself. – Lin Yutang
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  16. A man who reads will find himself. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  17. The literary man re-reads, other men simply read. – CS Lewis
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  19. The best indicator of a man’s philosophy is not what he reads or says, but the way in which he lives his life, the way in which he acts. – Chris Matakas
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  21. I was once a man, not a great man, not a saintly man, but a good man, and a man nonetheless. – Barbara T Cerny
  22. The Joseph in you must rise to the challenges of life and turn them into gold. – Ikechukwu Joseph
  23. Joseph went from prison to prime minister from trials to triumph, from scar-weary to stardom – Ikechukwu Joseph
  24. They imprisoned Joseph to cage his abilities but God empowered him to manifest his potentials – Ikechukwu Joseph
  25. Be less than what you are so that you can become more.- -• Joseph Delaney, The Spook’s Sacrifice – Joseph Delaney
  26. They tore Joseph coat of many colors as evidence of his death and dreams but God brought together his life for his People, to prepare them posterity – Ikechukwu Joseph
  27. Joseph moved to prove his sincerity in his vision-they moved ahead to invalidate his sincerity and what they think is his imaginative illusion. – Ikechukwu Joseph
  28. Joseph lost his son and Christ. (Joseph a perdu РSon fils et J̩sus.) РCharles de Leusse
  29. The Joseph in you must rise to the challenges of life and turn them into gold – Ikechukwu Joseph
  30. To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click ‘I agree’. – Bill Maher
  31. In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for? – John Irving
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  33. See, she goes places when she reads. I know all about that. When I’m reading, wherever I am, I’m always somewhere else. – Rebecca Wells
  34. Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. – Marcel Proust
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  38. We pass Tinsley’s Fried Chicken with the big sign that reads, TRY OUR BIG, JUICY BREASTS. – Donna Cooner
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  40. The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul. – Mark Twain

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