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"What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."
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"I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!"
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"Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."
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"Reading opens up other pockets of the mind."
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"From the time I could read, I found solace in my father's library...At the ages of ten and eleven and twelve I would have preferred to remain in the library..."
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"I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in."
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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 I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that's reporting to them an unvarnished, unfiltered version of what they - the Administration - believe."
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"Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process."
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"Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way."
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"I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed."
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"Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell."
Money
"What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."
Reading
"They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good."
People
"Mothers are all slightly insane."
Family
"There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy."
Publishing
"You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart."
Movies
"The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly."
Unhappiness
"All morons hate it when you call them a moron."
Hate
"How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?"
Action
"I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody."
Courage
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