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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."

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

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

"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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"We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself."

"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."

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

"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."

"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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