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"Books are humanity in print."
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"A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door."
"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."
"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"
"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."
"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."
"The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me."
"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
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"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."
"Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline."
"The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard."
"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion."
"Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed."
"For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in."
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