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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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"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."
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"The world of books is heavenly paradise."
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"Read good books to improve your life."
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"We encounter great souls by reading great books."
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"There is no other enjoyment like reading."
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"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"
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"What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?"
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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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"I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai."
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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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"There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital."
Nation
"Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life."
Life
"Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States."
Life
"Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky."
Travel
"I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening."
History
"I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art."
Relationship
"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
"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
"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
"The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author."
Reading
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