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Jean Rostand

"The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to."

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"The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to."

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"A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books."

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"I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece."

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"I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!"

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"I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel."

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"Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read."

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"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god."

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"I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell."

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"Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that."

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"To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few."

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