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Marilyn French

"My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water."

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Amber Hurdle

"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."

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"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

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"Read much, but not many books."

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"Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion."

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"Books are humanity in print."

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"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."

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Amber Hurdle

"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."

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Amber Hurdle

"I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something."

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"Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind."

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"A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat."

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"Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected."
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"To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons."
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"Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior."
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"Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains."
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"All men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes."
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"Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?"
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"Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight."
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"Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?"
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"One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear."
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"Not many men have both good fortune and good sense."
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