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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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"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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"Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others."
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"Whatever you're ready for is ready for you."
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"Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom."
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"Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong."
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"The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison."
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"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."
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"Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect."
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"She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me."
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"No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table."
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"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
"Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life."
Life
"I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening."
History
"Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort."
Comfort
"In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul."
Soul
"If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one."
Life
"Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership."
Life
"The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author."
Reading
"There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital."
Nation
"It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life."
Life
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