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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
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"The proper study of mankind is books."
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"I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."
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"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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"You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere."
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"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."
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"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
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"Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape."
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"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world."
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"Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise."
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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."
People
"If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money."
Money
"In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained."
Love
"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."
Science
"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."
Time
"Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers."
Genius
"Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat."
Books
"Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued."
Marriage
"If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them."
Man
"What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love."
Love
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