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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."

"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."

"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."

"When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask."

"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."

"There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction."

"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
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"When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul."

"I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build."

"Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy."

"Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion."
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