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"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads."
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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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"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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"Fights you on patriotic principles he robs you on business principles he enslaves you on imperial principles."
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"The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years."
Affection

"The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me."
Emotion

"What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?"
Car

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
Future

"What you are to do without me I cannot imagine."
Reflection

"The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older."
Change

"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."
Love

"Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family."
Family

"A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere - no right to live. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift to articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton..."
Communication
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