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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."
"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."
"Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire."
"The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men."
"We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity."
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