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"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."
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Personal Development
"Easy reading is damn hard writing."
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Personal Development
"Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw."
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Personal Development
"He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule."
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Personal Development
"With a book he was regardless of time."
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"I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."
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"What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever."
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"Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect."
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"Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it."
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"The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor."
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"Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!"
Love
"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
Parenting
"The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality."
Life
"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."
Music
"There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch."
Business
"When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations."
Man
"I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.""
Man
"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."
Being
"Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass."
Wisdom
"Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness."
Humility
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