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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
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Personal Development
"You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere."
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Personal Development
"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."
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Personal Development
"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world."
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Personal Development
"We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study."
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Personal Development
"Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please."
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Personal Development
"The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books."
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Personal Development
"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
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Personal Development
"In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them."
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"I will try to write books until I drop dead."
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"Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so."
Politics
"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
"Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults."
Advertising
"To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds."
Birds
"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent."
Media
"On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died."
Politics
"There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices."
People
"Never have children, only grandchildren."
Family
"What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?"
Cultural
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