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"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
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"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."
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"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"
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"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."
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"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."
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"The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me."
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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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"My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected."
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"Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind."
Sacrifice
"Value your words. Each one may be the last."
Wisdom
"Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured."
Doubt
"The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."
Books
"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."
Age
"The first requisite for immortality is death."
Death
"First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent."
Career
"When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet."
Caution
"Never lie when the truth is more profitable."
Truth
"When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy."
Preservation
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