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"A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door."
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"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
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"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."
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"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"
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"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."
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"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."
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"The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me."
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"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
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"True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary."
Eloquence
"I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day."
Woman
"Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose."
Humor
"I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses."
Being
"Experience is a good school. But the fees are high."
Experience
"Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned."
Man
"Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle."
Death
"I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom."
Reading
"The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought."
Man
"The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle."
Music
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