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"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things."
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"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."
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"The world of books is heavenly paradise."
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"Read good books to improve your life."
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"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"
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"What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?"
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"I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does."
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"Easy reading is damn hard writing."
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"If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all."
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"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
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"One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?"
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"One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism."
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"Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all."
Envy
"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things."
Reading
"I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks."
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"I am married to someone I love."
Love
"The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section."
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"In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins."
Envy
"By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate."
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"I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive."
Fun
"We know the ideal isn't where the action is."
Action
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