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"It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old."
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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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"If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating."
Conversation
"The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man."
Man
"Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice."
History
"The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there."
Church
"Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears."
People
"The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing."
People
"Colors are the smiles of nature."
Nature
"There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination."
Imagination
"The groundwork of all happiness is health."
Happiness
"It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old."
Books
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