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"I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger."
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"What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so."

"I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers."

"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!"

"I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction."

"Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic."
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"I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics."

"How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!"

"When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste."

"Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is."

"Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon."

"Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare."
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