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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."
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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."
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"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."
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"I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide."
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"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."
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"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."
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"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."
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"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
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"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."
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"These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's important."
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"Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day."
Disgust
"Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life."
Life
"Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth."
Truth
"Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent."
Nature
"The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live."
Life
"Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before."
Books
"Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones."
Money
"The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society."
Art
"There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools."
Creativity
"Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live."
Life
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