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Joseph Heller

"He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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"But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents."
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"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to."
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"Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck."
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"Rise above principle and do what's right."
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"He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody."
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