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"I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic."
"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books."
"A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door."
"A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books."
"I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece."
"I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!"
"Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read."
"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."
"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
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"You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else."
"So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality."
"To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater."
"U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone."
"Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss."
"Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die."
"My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them."
"What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop."
"You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong."
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