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"Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately."
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"I find it's impossible for me to read Proust."
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"I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately."
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"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."
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"By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors."
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"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things."
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"And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!"
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"Never read a book through merely because you have begun it."
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"I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble."
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"Hard writing makes easy reading."
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"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
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"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."
Reading
"The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him."
Existence
"Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune."
Friendship
"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself."
Thought
"Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost."
Honor
"It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are."
Relationship
"For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible."
Time
"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."
Talent
"The word of man is the most durable of all material."
Man
"Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax."
Nature
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