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"And it's impossible for me to read Henry James."
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"I find it's impossible for me to read Proust."
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"I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately."
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"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."
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"By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors."
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"And so we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don't provoke an increase in the bond rate and then offset a lot of the stimulus we've already got."
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"Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write."
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"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things."
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"And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!"
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"Never read a book through merely because you have begun it."
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"I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble."
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"I find it's impossible for me to read Proust."
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"And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping."
Art
"I don't think of myself all the time."
Time
"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."
Love
"People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share."
People
"And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it."
Poetry
"And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so."
Poetry
"All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about."
People
"But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person."
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"When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me."
Solitude
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