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"A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door."
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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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"Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly."
Life
"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."
Action
"If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon."
Age
"Not failure, but low aim, is crime."
Failure
"Light is the symbol of truth."
Truth
"It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested."
Man
"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."
Change
"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."
Action
"As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend."
Friendship
"He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft."
Progress
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