"He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends"
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"You can write a book on how to ruin someone’s perfect day."
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"I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them."
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"The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them."
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"My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine."
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"The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one."
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"Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding."
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"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are always sunsets, and there is always genius; but only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament. Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung. Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective store?"
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"I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment."
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"Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints."
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"What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed."
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"My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects."
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"The virtue of books is to be readable."
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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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"I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read."
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"Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mailbag, a college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay."
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"Never read any book that is not a year old."
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"Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear."
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"Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit."
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"It is a work of psychogeography, albeit in a less explicit sense than Iain Sinclair's or Will Self's. It had to be fiction though, because I needed that freedom of including whatever belonged, and cutting out whatever didn't. The main fiction in it was matching Julius' generous and self-concealing character to New York's generous and self-concealing character. I think this also adds to my answer about New York's personality in the book."
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