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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."
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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."
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"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."
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"I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide."
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"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."
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"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."
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"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."
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"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
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"I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now."
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"I don't sign contracts for my books."
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"We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself."
Life

"That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president."
Politics

"Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so."
Politics

"It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail."
Ambition

"It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail."
Ambition

"Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself."
Life

"All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world."
World

"Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel."
Now

"There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise."
People

"As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days."
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