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"I buy way too many books."
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"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know."
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"I love reading I know it's very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it."
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"I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books."
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"There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite."
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"I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood."
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"Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it."
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"I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats."
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"I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself."
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"The true university of these days is a collection of books."
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"I write books to find out about things."
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"Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf."
Justice
"I thought speakers didn't believe in sin," said a sullen boy.Andrew smiled. "You believe in sin, Styrka, and you do things because of that belief. So sin is real in you, and knowing you, this speaker must believe in sin."
Religion
"Never believe a rumor of my death,' said Peter. 'I have as many lives as a cat. Also as many teeth, as many claws, and the same cheery, cooperative disposition."
Life
"Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what?" asked Wang-mu."I think those are the pertinent virtues, yes," said Peter."Then let's do it. That's us in spades."
Determination
"You're not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are."
Philosophy
"I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares."
Maturity
"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."
Privacy
"Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah."Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It's the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I'm the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays."Hezekiah laughed, but there was affection in it. "I would love nothing better than to visit there. But I'm afraid I'd be tempted to loot the place, and carry it all away with me."
Psychology
"Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to."
Community
"Because human nature never changes."
Philosophy
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