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"He that loves reading has everything within his reach."
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
"I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in."
"Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time."
"You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread."
"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second."
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"In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question."
"The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation."
"The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself."
"Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind."
"Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much."
"Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions."
"But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference."
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