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"I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature."
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"And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book."
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"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."
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"Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but because we as readers have a strong subconscious wish to find them incredible."
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"I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr."
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"Which is my favourite author??You have mistake it must be authors I have a lot of favourite authors, which is my book, opps again a mistake, it must be books..."
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"Tell me of your Willoughbys, Heathcliffs and Wickhams in literature and I will tell you I met them all."
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"There are books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative."
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"I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you."
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"I read to know the past, I write to express my love for the future."
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"I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious."
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"I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature."
Literature
"Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values."
Wisdom
"Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments."
Respect
"Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present."
Death
"Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness."
Fool
"To silence criticism is to silence freedom."
Criticism
"Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure."
Failure
"Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive."
Life
"Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant."
Limit
"Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system."
Education
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