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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

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They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the truth. Then perish the fools who forged the (religious) traditions or interpreted them!

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Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

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I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.

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A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.

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The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.

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I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I know is that I see my readers creating a critical mass so we can at least understand this world in a different way.

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I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice. You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense.

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Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.

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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.

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The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

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I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him.

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I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

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My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.

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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.

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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.

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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

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A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

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Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the scene before Nature shall claim me.

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