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"It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents."
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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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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."
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"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."
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"I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide."
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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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"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."
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"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."
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"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."
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"My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have."
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"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
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"Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease."
Life
"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely."
Experience
"No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher."
Success
"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."
First
"Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought."
Thought
"He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all."
Books
"There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language."
Art
"There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs."
Truth
"Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability."
Art
"The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases."
Life
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