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"The newest books are those that never grow old."
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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."
"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
"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."
"When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask."
"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."
"There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction."
"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
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"A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat."
"People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror."
"All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind."
"How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?"
"Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own."
"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."
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