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"I write books to find out about things."
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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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"Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience."
Art
"The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple."
Man
"International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge."
Knowledge
"There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all."
Conversation
"Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind."
Communication
"The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots."
Man
"I write books to find out about things."
Books
"We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy."
Comfort
"It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion."
Soul
"Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is."
Destruction
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