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"Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em."
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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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"Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate."
Debt
"Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one."
Being
"I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better."
Man
"Women serve but to keep a man from better company."
Woman
"Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it."
Beauty
"Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly."
Being
"Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men."
Men
"Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close."
Death
"Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see."
Men
"Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding."
Love
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