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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."

"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

"I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please."

"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."
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"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."

"If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves."

"Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever."

"In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going."

"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."
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