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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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"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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"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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"When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask."
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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."
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"I regret all of my books."
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"My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel."
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"Our library isn't very extensive," said Anne, "but every book in it is a friend. We've picked our books up through the years, here and there, never buying one until we had first read it and knew that it belonged to the race of Joseph."
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"A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals."
Creativity
"We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books."
Books
"To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect."
Fact
"There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism."
Criticism
"The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness."
College
"My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects."
Education
"Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view."
Education
"It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches."
College
"Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible."
Education
"When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away."
Lie
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