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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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"The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases."
Life

"The future is today."
Future

"It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has."
Disease

"The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget."
Man

"Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease."
Life

"He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all."
Books

"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."
Work

"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."
First

"To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle."
Effort

"The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."
First
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