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"A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything."
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"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."
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"Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but because we as readers have a strong subconscious wish to find them incredible."
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"I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr."
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"Which is my favourite author??You have mistake it must be authors I have a lot of favourite authors, which is my book, opps again a mistake, it must be books..."
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"Tell me of your Willoughbys, Heathcliffs and Wickhams in literature and I will tell you I met them all."
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"I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you."
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"I read to know the past, I write to express my love for the future."
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"I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious."
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"You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style."
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"I often like to enjoy the beauty of a beautiful book."
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"The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity."
Waste
"Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man."
Animals
"Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond."
Marriage
"I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race."
Science
"There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it."
Love
"A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything."
Literature
"Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies."
Change
"Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise."
Power
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