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"The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves."
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"A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door."
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Personal Development
"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
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"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."
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"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"
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"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."
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"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."
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"The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me."
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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 final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define."
Friendship
"Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake."
Art
"The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink."
Life
"Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch."
Faith
"The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance."
Love
"So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism."
Criticism
"Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration."
Man
"There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer."
Politics
"One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life."
Life
"The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself."
Politics
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