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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
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Personal Development
"Doctor Sleep - book (By Stephen King) is the best choice before going to bed!"
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Personal Development
"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
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Personal Development
"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
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Personal Development
"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
"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
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"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."
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Personal Development
"Without story books is like a person with no soul."
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Personal Development
"A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books."
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"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
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"All the supernatural yarns need a realist explanation and a supernatural one."
Mystery
"I watched the stars and thought of other lives."
Wonder
"It's like the British in Ireland in 1916' , says Oisir O'Dowd. 'The repeated the ageless macho mantra, "Force is the only thing these natives understand, so often that they ended up believing it . From that point they were doomed."
Conflict
"Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows."
Reality
"Survival often demands our courage."
Courage
"Pretending,' she looked at the garden, 'is not the truth.''But you said two true things, right ? One, you hate this girl. Two, you want her to feel better. If you decide that the wanting truth's more important than the hating truth, just tell her you've forgiven her, even if you haven't. At least she'd feel better. Maybe that'd make you feel better too.'Madame Crommelynck studied her hands, moodily, both sides. 'Sophistry', she pronounced. I'm not sure what 'sophistry' means so I kept shtum."
Forgiveness
"I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People."
Support
"You only value something if you know it'll end."
Values
"But this isn't a ghost story: the ghost is in the background, where she has to be. If she was in the foreground she'd be a person."
Mystery
"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love."
Religion
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