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"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
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"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them."
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"I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years."
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"I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an escape from the intolerable, a doorway into impossibly hospitable worlds where things had rules and could be understood; stories had been a way of learning about life without experiencing it, or perhaps of experiencing it as an eighteenth-century poisoner dealt with poisons, taking them in tiny doses, such that the poisoner could cope with ingesting things that would kill someone who was not inured to them. Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it."
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"If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher."
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"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil."
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"Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?"
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"What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so."
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"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism."
Ignorance
"To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all."
Books
"The future is today."
Future
"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."
Life
"He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all."
Books
"To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle."
Effort
"The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow."
Age
"Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought."
Thought
"Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease."
Life
"The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it."
Success
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