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"The true university of these days is a collection of books."
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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
"The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads."
"I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."
"I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an escape from the intolerable, a doorway into impossibly hospitable worlds where things had rules and could be understood; stories had been a way of learning about life without experiencing it, or perhaps of experiencing it as an eighteenth-century poisoner dealt with poisons, taking them in tiny doses, such that the poisoner could cope with ingesting things that would kill someone who was not inured to them. Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it."
"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
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"It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale."
"Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand."
"If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else."
"The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect."
"The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke, there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire."
"For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?"
"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."
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