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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
"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."
"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out."
"To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films."
"You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer."
"I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England."
"A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader."
"You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that."
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