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Karl Marx

"I am a machine condemned to devour books."

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"I am a machine condemned to devour books."

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Amber Hurdle

"She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me."

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Amber Hurdle

"Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time."

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Amber Hurdle

"When you read a book put all of your effort into staying present and focus your energy towards the comprehension of each and every word and how you can apply it into your daily life."

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Amber Hurdle

"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."

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Amber Hurdle

"Read in order to live."

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Amber Hurdle

"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."

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Amber Hurdle

"Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare."

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Amber Hurdle

"When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I still prefer holding an old-fashioned book in my hands. There's a special, tactile experience."

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Amber Hurdle

"More than a half million books, all of them smelling like dust and ink, two terrible smells that blend mystically to make something beautiful. Powells is another church to me, a paperback sort of heaven."

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"The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together."
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"While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser."
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"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."
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"You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so: that is just what we intend."
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"No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind."
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"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force."
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"Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren't his. They belong to the person paying him to fish, and if he's lucky, he might get paid enough to buy a few fish for himself."
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"The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future."
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"One basis for life and another basis for science is a priori a lie."
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"The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison."
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