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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."
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"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."
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"Without story books is like a person with no soul."
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"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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"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
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"I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that."
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"I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished."
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"I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an escape from the intolerable, a doorway into impossibly hospitable worlds where things had rules and could be understood; stories had been a way of learning about life without experiencing it, or perhaps of experiencing it as an eighteenth-century poisoner dealt with poisons, taking them in tiny doses, such that the poisoner could cope with ingesting things that would kill someone who was not inured to them. Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it."
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"I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years."
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"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."
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"Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself."
Happiness
"When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?"
Family
"If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother."
Marriage
"We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through."
Religion
"You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice."
Reading
"One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination."
Imagination
"Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children."
Family
"Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor."
Books
"Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle."
Love
"Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped."
Prevention
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