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Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

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Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.

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I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film. Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.

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There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!

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Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.

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But every page having an ample marge, And every marge enclosing in the midst A square of text that looks a little blot.

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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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There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains.

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But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.

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The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is like a soul, and that every soul should have its own body.

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A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

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People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

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To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.

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You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.

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The book one must read to learn natural sciences is the book of nature. The book from which to learn religion is your own mind and heart.

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I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance, the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

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Dreams, books, are each a world.

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It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I am going to talk about. He attracted me by three things: his candid simplicity, his marvelous familiarity with ancient armor, and the restfulness of his company--for he did all the talking.

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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

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What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

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