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"Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them."
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"You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by."
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"Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for youAs for my patron, stand you so assured,As firmly as yourself were in still place - Yea, and perhaps with more successful wordsThan you, unless you were a scholar, sir.O this learning, what a thing it is!"
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"Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it."
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"Dare to read."
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"The greatest treasures are books."
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"Do not be ready to listen to anyone who is ready to show you your past mistakes instead, be ready to listen to someone who is ready to show you the untold lessons from your past mistakes so that you may be able to skip your future mistakes."
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"We do not need to teach our children how to fight. We need to teach our children the miraculousness and transientness of life."
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"We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree."
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"This corn will teach to you, should you peel away the husk, and be willing to open your ears."
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"Self learner, reading."
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"Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles."
Writing


"The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write."
Literature


"Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block."
Nothing


"I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs."
Adventure


"I would like to learn, or remember, how to live."
Learning


"Somewhere and I can't find where I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest 'If I did not know about God and sin would I go to hell?' 'No' said the priest 'not if you did not know.' 'Then why ' asked the Eskimo earnestly 'did you tell me?'"
Philosophy


"I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again."
Family


"Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world."
Imagination


"I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' 'No,' said the priest, 'not if you did not know.' 'Then why,' asked the Eskimo earnestly, 'did you tell me?"
Ethics


"On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away."
Art
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