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"The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them."
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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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"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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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
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"Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
Man
"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."
Money
"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."
Death
"For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine."
Truth
"Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life."
Death
"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."
Fool
"Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since."
Christian
"Let every man be true and every god a liar."
God
"Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have."
Reasoning
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