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"The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden."
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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."
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"The world of books is heavenly paradise."
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"Read good books to improve your life."
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"We encounter great souls by reading great books."
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"There is no other enjoyment like reading."
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"Readers may be divided into four classes: I. Sponges, who absorb all they read, and return it nearly in the same state, only a little dirtied. II. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing, and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. III. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. IV. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also."
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"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"
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"If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything."
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"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?"
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"I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain."
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"I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up."
Time
"My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline."
Creativity
"The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden."
Reading
"IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life."
Life
"The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious."
Fact
"Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society."
Society
"Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought."
Success
"I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't."
Life
"Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men."
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"IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere."
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