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"A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door."
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"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
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"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."
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"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"
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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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"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."
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"The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me."
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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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"The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning."
Books
"Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it."
Literature
"Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion."
Lie
"There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it."
Society
"The New is not a fashion, it is a value."
Fashion
"What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth."
Time
"To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality."
Nature
"I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun."
Life
"Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula."
Knowledge
"For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture."
Needs
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