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"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
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Personal Development
"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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"One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude."
Solitude
"I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter."
Creativity
"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed."
Anger
"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
"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."
People
"The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help."
Time
"Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence."
Love
"All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected."
Politics
"A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake."
Birth
"I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world."
Age
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