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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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"The proper study of mankind is books."
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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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"I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."
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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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"You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere."
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"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."
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"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."
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"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
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"Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape."
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"There are more fools in the world than there are people."
People
"Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks."
Eloquence
"Atheism is the last word of theism."
Religion
"True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary."
Eloquence
"The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought."
Man
"When words leave off, music begins."
Music
"The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough."
Money
"Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it."
People
"Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle."
Death
"Human misery is too great for men to do without faith."
Faith
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