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Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

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This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.

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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.

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It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo 's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls.

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It seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one is producing a complete disaster.

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if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

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My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

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

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The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid.

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A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That's a sign of a good novel. Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.

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Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

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There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.

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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.

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You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

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My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.

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Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

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When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.

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It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.

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The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change-that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out.

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Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

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