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"Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion."
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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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"My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected."
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"Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute in their place a feeling of self-confidence and contentment?"
Faith
"If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses."
Family
"A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath."
Simplicity
"The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation."
Literature
"Superstition is the poetry of life."
Life
"Each one sees what he carries in his heart."
Perception
"We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us."
Love
"When he comes to the doorhe always looks mocking and half-way angry.You can see he has sympathy for nothing.It's written on his foreheadthat he can love no one."
Emotion
"A useless life is an early death."
Death
"National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."
Conflict
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