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David Sylvian

"I'm obsessed with books."

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"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."

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"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

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"Read much, but not many books."

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"Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion."

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"Books are humanity in print."

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"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."

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"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."

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"I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something."

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"Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind."

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"A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat."

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"I'm obsessed with books."
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