"Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them."
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"I do not know if Alice in Wonderland was an original story-I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it-but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen story-books have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'-is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again."
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"When you're done [with writing a book], people tell you "Well, gee, I'm not interested." "Great, I'm glad I sat down and wrote this!""
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"This book is dedicated to all of my friends who helped me get to where I am today - you know who you are... and when I find you I am going to kill you."
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"I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense. Still, you know, words mean more than we mean to express when we use them; so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer means. So, whatever good meanings are in the book, I'm glad to accept as the meaning of the book."
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"Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly."
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"The books of our childhood offer a vivid door to our own pasts, and not necessarily for the stories we read there, but for the memories of where we were and who we were when we were reading them; to remember a book is to remember the child who read that book."
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"Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is the city where our fleshed-out inner selves reside."
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"Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers to as one genius speaking to another."
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"A bran' new book is a beautiful thing, all promise and fresh pages, the neatly squared spine, the brisk sense of a journey beginning. But a well-worn book also has its pleasures, the soft caress and give of the paper's edges, the comfort, like an old shawl, of an oft-read story."
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"Books were in the world; the world was in books."
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"I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried to keep them all, but that quest soon became impossible; I now only keep the ones I'm sure I'm going to reread, the ones I'm definitely going to read before I die, and the ones I can't bear to part with because of an aesthetic or emotional attachment."
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"The human mind is not meant to be governed, certainly not by any book of rules yet written; it is supposed to run itself, and we are obliged to follow it along, trying to keep up with it as best we can."
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"It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is."
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"With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block."
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"If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, - and that is a book honestly come by."
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"Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors."
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"With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book."
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"'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit."
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"Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me."
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