"I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed."

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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."

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"The proper study of mankind is books."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."

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"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."

George Orwell, British Author

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"You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere."

Ta-Nehisi Coates, American Writer

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"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."

Alison Bechdel, American Cartoonist

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"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape."

Craig Ferguson, Scottish Comedian

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