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"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."
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"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."
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"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."
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"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."
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"A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat."
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"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."
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"Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me."
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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
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"I have to go make books. Sorry about that."
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"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you."
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"There was no actual person who was James Bond, despite all the books."
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"Technology favors horrible people."
Technology
"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."
People
"Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it."
Life
"Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure."
Power
"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless."
People
"The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself."
Time
"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."
Books
"If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil."
Emotional
"We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place."
Death
"In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich."
Future
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