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"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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"Mechanization best serves mediocrity."
Mediocrity
"Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed."
Art
""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
First
"New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent."
Money
"I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture."
Life
"No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built."
Life
"Television is chewing gum for the eyes."
Eye
"A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart."
Heart
"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope."
Hope
"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity."
Architecture
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