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"A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug."
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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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"Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one."
Youth
"There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands."
Nation
"It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness."
Idleness
"Two great talkers will not travel far together."
Travel
"A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug."
Literature
"Translation is at best an echo."
Communication
"I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep."
Politics
"Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime."
Love
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