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"From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment."
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"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."
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"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"
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"Easy reading is damn hard writing."
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"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
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"Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw."
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"He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule."
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"With a book he was regardless of time."
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"I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."
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"What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever."
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"Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect."
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"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn."
Power
"The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part."
Character
"From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment."
Reading
"True valor lies between cowardice and rashness."
Coward
"Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."
Design
"Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise."
Moderation
"Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish."
Laziness
"There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots."
Old
"Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory."
Victory
"I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar."
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