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"If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy."
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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
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"Doctor Sleep - book (By Stephen King) is the best choice before going to bed!"
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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
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"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
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"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
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"Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to."
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"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."
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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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"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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"Without story books is like a person with no soul."
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"Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like."
Court
"Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance."
Wife
"I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe."
Love
"If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write."
Want
"The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale."
Politics
"That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front."
War
"If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy."
Books
"I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow."
God
"But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews."
Experience
"It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment."
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