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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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."
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Personal Development
"My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected."
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Personal Development
"The true university of these days is a collection of books."
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Personal Development
"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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"Without story books is like a person with no soul."
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"For me, that emotional payoff is what it's all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or do both at the same time. I want your heart, in other words. If you want to learn something, go to school."
Storytelling
"Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome."
Love
"When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing."
Mind
"Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all."
Hope
"We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long."
Death
"It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost."
Philosophy
"What about reality, you ask? Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. I've never held much of a brief for reality, at least in my written work. All too often it is to the imagination what ash stakes are to vampires."
Reality
"Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back."
Love
"Time and tide wait for no man."
Time
"I'm going crazy, Louis thought wonderingly. Wheeeeee!"
Fear
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