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"I write books to find out about things."
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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
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"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
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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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"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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"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
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"A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you."
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"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out."
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"I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood."
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"I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it."
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"There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die."
Will
"Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves."
Trust
"People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
People
"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."
Art
"Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts."
Music
"I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
People
"Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse."
Being
"It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster."
Disaster
"I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?"
People
"Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space."
Ability
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