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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
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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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"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."
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"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
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"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out."
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"I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood."
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"I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it."
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"To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films."
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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
Books
"Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
Life
"Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence."
Love
"The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help."
Time
"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."
People
"Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are."
Emotional
"The greatest cunning is to have none at all."
Cunning
"I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this."
Now
"Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits."
Poetry
"I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie."
Poet
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