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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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"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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"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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"My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected."
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"The true university of these days is a collection of books."
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"When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask."
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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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"I regret all of my books."
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"Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world."
Man
"I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies."
Ambition
"The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators."
Pain
"Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action."
Action
"Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be."
History
"People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws."
Power
"I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read."
Books
"We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age."
Age
"A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot."
Constitution
"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."
People
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