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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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"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
"I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books."
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"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."
"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."
"Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time."
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them."
"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..."
"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him."
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