"Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?"
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"Read in order to live."
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"Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book."
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"I know why the caged bird sings."
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"I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write of sin. You’re the book I love the best, your skin only holds my truth, you will be a palimpsest lines of age rewriting youth. You will not burn upon the pyre. Or be buried on the shelf. You’re my letter to desire: And you’ll never read yourself. I will trace each word and comma As the final dusk descends, You’re my tale of dreams and drama, Let us find out how it ends."
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"I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought I'd rather dance with the cows until you come home."
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"We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful."
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"Whatever good works ye send on before [death]... ye shall find with God."
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"Somebody's boring me. I think it's me."
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"Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means."
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"Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!"
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"Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them."
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"Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of every one I have ever read, somehow transmuted and transformed into me just as my genes and the soul within me make me uniquely me, so I am the unique sum of the books I have read. I am my literary DNA."
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"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
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"Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic overtones, soul orgies, wailings among the shadows, weird gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies ... this is the stuff, the phantasms of hope, that fills your book shelves. Look at them, all the sad wraiths of sad mad men and passionate rebels — your Schopenhauers, your Strindbergs, your Tolstois and Nietzsches. Come. Your glass is empty. Fill and forget."
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"God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation."
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"Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable."
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"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer."
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"Leave no stone unturned."
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"A good book is an event in my life."
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