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Robert Graves

"Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat."

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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 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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"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."

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"If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money."
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"A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good."
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"Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time."
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"To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession."
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"Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science."
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"One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors."
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"A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure."
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"What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love."
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"Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued."
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