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I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

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O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.

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The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it.

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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

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I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.

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No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.

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Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.

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Books are for nothing but to inspire

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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

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I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

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Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. Wait a minute. "Once upon a time" is how all the best children's stories begin, and "prostitute" is a word for adults. How can I start a book with this apparent contradiction? But since, at every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss, let's keep that beginning.

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It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.

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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

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The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people.

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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

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No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

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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 was just a guy who did adult or alternative comic books. And then suddenly to be, like, a New Yorker cover artist was a different thing.

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The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

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