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"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
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Personal Development
"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
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Personal Development
"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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Personal Development
"The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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"Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions."
Morality
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
History
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
Music
"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'"
Life
"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."
Work
"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
People
"It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous."
Beauty
"Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive, even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy."
Science
"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."
Education
"Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but drowned a small jigger of immediate experience, most of it strictly sexual. Broken reeds are seldom good mixers. They're far too busy with their ideas, their sensuality and their psychosomatic complaints to be able to take an interest in other people - even their own wives and children. They live in a state of the most profound voluntary ignorance, not knowing anything about anybody, but abounding in preconceived opinions about everything."
Philosophy
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