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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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Personal Development

"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."
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Personal Development

"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world."
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Personal Development

"We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study."
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Personal Development

"Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please."
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Personal Development

"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
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Personal Development

"In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them."
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Personal Development

"The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it."
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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old."
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"I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now."
Books

"Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it."
Nature

"I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him."
Creativity

"The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort."
Hope

"My head can get to murder and rape for profit because I can understand greed as a human motive, but I cannot understand the voyeuristic desire to watch such a film. I can comprehend one and I cannot comprehend the other."
Desire

"I have always had a particular antagonism for the military."
Military
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