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"The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads."
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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
"The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads."
"I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."
"I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an escape from the intolerable, a doorway into impossibly hospitable worlds where things had rules and could be understood; stories had been a way of learning about life without experiencing it, or perhaps of experiencing it as an eighteenth-century poisoner dealt with poisons, taking them in tiny doses, such that the poisoner could cope with ingesting things that would kill someone who was not inured to them. Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it."
"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."
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"The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything."
"The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever."
"Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe."
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
"The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
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