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"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."
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"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
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"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books."
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"The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them."
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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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"A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly."
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"I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years."
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"I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an escape from the intolerable, a doorway into impossibly hospitable worlds where things had rules and could be understood; stories had been a way of learning about life without experiencing it, or perhaps of experiencing it as an eighteenth-century poisoner dealt with poisons, taking them in tiny doses, such that the poisoner could cope with ingesting things that would kill someone who was not inured to them. Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it."
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"If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher."
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"Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games."
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"I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot."
Learning
"Believe it or not, I was all fully rounded by the time I was nine years old."
Time
"One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up."
Waste
"We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess."
Wife
"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."
Books
"None of the European girls, including Anita Ekberg, has anything not found on American girls as well."
American
"I like to take afternoon naps in the nude."
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"Anything I learned about the fine art of acting I learned from Hugo."
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"Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity."
Clothes
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