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"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
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"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them."
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"I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years."
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"I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an escape from the intolerable, a doorway into impossibly hospitable worlds where things had rules and could be understood; stories had been a way of learning about life without experiencing it, or perhaps of experiencing it as an eighteenth-century poisoner dealt with poisons, taking them in tiny doses, such that the poisoner could cope with ingesting things that would kill someone who was not inured to them. Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it."
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"If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher."
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"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil."
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"Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?"
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"What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so."
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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."
Life
"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."
Prejudice
"Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains."
Man
"Not many men have both good fortune and good sense."
Man
"All men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes."
Man
"Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them."
Fear
"Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?"
Nothing
"Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior."
Man
"My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water."
Books
"Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model."
Nature
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