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"Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written."
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"And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book."
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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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"There are books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative."
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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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"Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order."
Order
"Every happiness is a hostage to fortune."
Happiness
"Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book."
Solitude
"Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written."
Literature
"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away."
Kindness
"In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success."
Success
"There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance."
Beauty
"Choose an author as you choose a friend."
Friendship
"Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?"
Boredom
"Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy."
Strength
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