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"I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic."
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"I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar."
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"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books."
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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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"The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves."
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"A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books."
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"I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece."
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"I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!"
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"Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read."
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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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"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god."
God
"God, that dumping ground of our dreams."
Dream
"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
Being
"Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued."
Art
"One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it."
Credit
"Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt."
Contempt
"To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should."
Love
"I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books."
Books
"It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him."
Work
"Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness."
Greatness
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