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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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"Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it."
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"The true university of these days is a collection of books."
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"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."
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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
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"Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try."
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"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."
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"I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction."
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"Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies - for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry - I say to myself, "What a pity I can't buy that book, for I already have a copy at home."
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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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"Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?"
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?"
Art
"Hell is full of musical amateurs."
Hell
"Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive."
Habit
"Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing."
Sacrifice
"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."
Bible
"In heaven an angel is nobody in particular."
Heaven
"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."
Conversation
"Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing-a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces."
Mortality
"I work as my father drank."
Personal
"Some donkeys have amazing luck."
Fortune
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