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"We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions."
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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
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"You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere."
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"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."
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"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
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"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world."
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"Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise."
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"My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about."
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"There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers."
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"I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece."
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"It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't."
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"There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman."
Universe
"Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others."
Happiness
"The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love."
Love
"I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species."
Man
"Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy."
Friendship
"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not."
News
"A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart."
Heart
"There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear."
Power
"Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea."
Love
"One fool at least in every married couple."
Fool
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