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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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"If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads."
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"It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them, but one usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of their contents."
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"A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish between his fingers. A reader, on the other hand, must check the desire for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good, but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist or an authority, is very apt to kill what suits us to consider the more humane passion for pure and disinterested reading."
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"If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all."
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"And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end."
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"I am a machine condemned to devour books."
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"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
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"Read for the sake of using others knowledge to find your own inner guidance."
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"With a book he was regardless of time."
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"We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind."
Death
"I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for."
Danger
"A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it."
Action
"Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them."
Actor
"Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day."
Beginning
"The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way."
Winning
"But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone."
Life
"The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose."
Decision-Making
"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."
Gratitude
"A play visibly represents pure existing."
Art
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