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"Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews."
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"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
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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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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them."
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"I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years."
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"I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an escape from the intolerable, a doorway into impossibly hospitable worlds where things had rules and could be understood; stories had been a way of learning about life without experiencing it, or perhaps of experiencing it as an eighteenth-century poisoner dealt with poisons, taking them in tiny doses, such that the poisoner could cope with ingesting things that would kill someone who was not inured to them. Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it."
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"If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher."
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"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil."
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"Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?"
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"What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so."
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"Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews."
Books
"I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong."
People
"Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years."
Confidence
"Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage."
Age
"Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse."
God
"Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building."
Building
"They spend their time looking forward to the past."
Time
"There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success."
Success
"Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves."
God
"It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man."
Desire
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