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"It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them, but one usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of their contents."
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"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
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"Books were everywhere, lined neatly on shelves that went from floor to ceiling. The ceiling was two stories high, with an upper balcony that provided access to a second-floor gallery. The dazzling array of red, gold, green, and brown bindings was a feast for the eyes, while the wonderful smells of vellum, parchment, and pungent leather almost caused Amanda to salivate. An exquisite waft of tea leaves lingered in the air. For anyone who enjoyed the pursuit of reading, this place surely was paradise."
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"Every true reader could, even if not one new book were published, spend decades and centuries studying on, fighting on, continuing to rejoice in the treasure of those already at hand."
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"A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short."
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"Read a short story every day."
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"I read anything that's going to be interesting. But you don't know what it is until you've read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there'll be the making of a novel."
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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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"Reading sparks writing."
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"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second."
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"Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera."
Age
"Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge."
Truth
"Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation."
Thought
"The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small."
Conflict
"Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism."
Duplicity
"Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining."
Change
"Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time."
Time
"Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them."
Reflection
"After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success."
Success
"When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion."
Success
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