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"I'm not too interested in books about India."
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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."
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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."
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"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."
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"I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide."
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"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."
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"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."
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"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."
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"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
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"I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now."
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"I don't sign contracts for my books."
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"And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love."
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"But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America."
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"And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter."
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"Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts."
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"I happen to believe that there is an afterlife."
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"My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road."
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"There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else."
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"The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him."
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"A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic."
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"And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment."
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