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"I often reread books I have written."
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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
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"You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere."
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Personal Development
"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."
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"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world."
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Personal Development
"We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study."
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Personal Development
"Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please."
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"The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books."
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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
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Personal Development
"In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them."
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"The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it."
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"My literary success meant nothing to me."
Success
"Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned."
Life
"People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite."
Death
"It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness."
Nature
"I'm not that interested in people."
People
"The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall."
Governance
"Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools."
Fool
"My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer."
Being
"The world is a penal institution."
World
"Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it."
Truth
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