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"It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do."
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
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Personal Development
"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."
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"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."
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Personal Development
"My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel."
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Personal Development
"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"
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"I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books."
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Personal Development
"Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks."
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"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads."
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"There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books."
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"Just be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give some people."
Self
"Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it."
Curiosity
"Insomnia is his mind's revenge for all the tricky thoughts he has carefully avoided during the daylight hours."
Mind
"At the heart of the pain created by sexual rejection is our habit of interpreting it as a moral judgement, when it might more accurately be categorized as a mere accident."
Relationship
"The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to."
Journey
"Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself."
Loss
"Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don't know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate."
Commitment
"We don't need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have mastered is the occasional capacity to acknowledge with good grace that we may, in one or two areas, be somewhat insane."
Relationship
"We are humiliated by what is powerful and mean, but awed by what is powerful and noble."
Power
"It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate on anything much. The deep, immersive thinking which produced many of civilization's most important achievements has come under unprecedented assault. We are almost never far from a machine that guarantees us a mesmerizing and libidinous escape from reality. The feelings and thoughts which we have omitted to experience while looking at our screens are left to find their revenge in involuntary twitches and our ever-decreasing ability to fall asleep when we should."
Technology
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