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Gore Vidal

"That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers."

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"That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."

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"Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself."

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"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil."

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"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

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Amber Hurdle

"Read much, but not many books."

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"Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion."

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"Books are humanity in print."

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"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."

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"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."
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"Write something, even if it's just a suicide note."
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"It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail."
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"Never have children, only grandchildren."
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"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."
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"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent."
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"Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences."
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"That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president."
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