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"When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write."
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."
"We encounter great souls by reading great books."
"There is no other enjoyment like reading."
"Reading opens up other pockets of the mind."
"Readers may be divided into four classes: I. Sponges, who absorb all they read, and return it nearly in the same state, only a little dirtied. II. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing, and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. III. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. IV. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also."
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"I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for."
"I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension."
"Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men."
"I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses."
"The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you."
"Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit."
"Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor."
"There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements."
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