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"I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!"
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"What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever."
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"If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads."
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"It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them, but one usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of their contents."
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"A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish between his fingers. A reader, on the other hand, must check the desire for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good, but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist or an authority, is very apt to kill what suits us to consider the more humane passion for pure and disinterested reading."
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"If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all."
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"And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end."
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"I am a machine condemned to devour books."
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"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
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"Read for the sake of using others knowledge to find your own inner guidance."
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"With a book he was regardless of time."
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"I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!"
Reading
"I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am."
Success
"It's always obvious to me when someone is looking at me with an idea of who I am and hoping that that's the person I'm going to be. No matter how subtle it is, it's there, and you want to give them who they really want. But it ain't me."
Creativity
"I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw."
Life
"I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired."
Time
"With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am."
Friendship
"My success is not who I am."
Success
"It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it."
Work
"People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile."
People
"Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up."
Childhood
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