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"I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom."
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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."
"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?"
"He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule."
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"Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all."
"Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death."
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