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"The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author."
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"I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned."
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"Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it."
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"It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too."Are you, Joe?"Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!" he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!"
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"I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does."
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"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."
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"The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you."
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"Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost."
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"And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?"
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"Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others."
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"Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading."
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"I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening."
History
"Take a look at the books other people have in their homes."
People
"Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life."
Life
"I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art."
Relationship
"As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real."
Health
"There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant."
Action
"A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels."
Life
"Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment."
Society
"I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person."
Home
"Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky."
Travel
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