"I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters."
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"Already by 1900 I could boast I had written as many books as Moses."
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"I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since."
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"This book [the Bible] speaks both the voice of God and the voice of humanity, for there is told in it the most convincing of human experience that has ever been written...and those who heed that story will know their strength and happiness and success are all summed up in the exhortation, "Fear God and keep His commandments.""
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"You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family."
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"I read all of Rider Haggard's books. For me he had the romance of Africa with a little bit of mysticism. I'm delighted to be looked on as his heir and be categorised as an adventure novelist because that's exactly what I am."
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"You open doors when you open books... doors that swing wide to unlimited horizons of knowledge, wisdom, and inspiration that will enlarge the dimensions of your life."
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"Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets."
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"Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition."
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"If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile."
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"The good of a book lies in its being read."
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"libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands"
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"For what I saw at the abbey then (and will now recount) caused me to think that often inquisitors create heretics. And not only in the sense that they imagine heretics where these do not exist, but also that inquisitors repress the heretical putrefaction so vehemently that many are driven to share in it, in their hatred for the judges. Truly, a circle conceived by the Devil. God preserve us."
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"A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it."
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"We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism."
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"In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for the sake of entering on the enjoyment of immortality, or of shunning, or ridding ourselves of anything whatever. Nay, the law, rightly interpreted, even prohibits suicide, where it says, 'Thou shalt not kill.' This is proved especially by the omission of the words "thy neighbor," which are inserted when false witness is forbidden."
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"Those who draw their sustenance from science are blessed. It is for me to only derive an occasional pleasure. This is nothing worthy of conceit, but I am indeed touched by the joys. This book is an ode to such joys, a digest of my collections from various sources."
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"Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche."
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"Lit majors are not known for watching where they're going; most of us walk with our eyes in a book instead of on the path ahead."
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"Before I started writing my album, I didn't tell people many things. But because I'm going to the studio every day and telling strangers my deepest and darkest emotions, it's made me more of an open book. I wear my heart on my sleeve a lot more now than I did."
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