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"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."
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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
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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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"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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"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
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"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out."
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"To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films."
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"You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here."
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"I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess."
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it."
Poetry
"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."
Books
"It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely."
Conversation
"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."
Love
"I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry."
Film
"And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping."
Art
"I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century."
Love
"When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man."
Poetry
"And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so."
Poetry
"However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird."
Poetry
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