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"I'm not too interested in books about India."
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"A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door."
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"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
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"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."
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"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"
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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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"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."
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"The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me."
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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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"Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up."
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"First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard."
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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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"A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic."
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"And then a great thing in my life was going to India."
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"You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex."
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"I'm not too interested in books about India."
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"But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America."
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"Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy."
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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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