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"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you."
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"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know."
"I love reading I know it's very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it."
"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."
"I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!"
"I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms."
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"In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names."
"Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth."
"It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure."
"One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union."
"Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared."
"If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess."
"Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange."
"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live."
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