"I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure."
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"It's hard when you make a film from a book that so many people love, because there's no way to get the entire story into a two-hour movie. But I was pleased with the reaction [for Kite Runner]."
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"Take then this Book, look into it, and show me when Jesus was not forgiving. Read this diving tragedy and tell me where He speaks without mercy and compassion. You visit not the sick and the imprisoned; nor do you feed the hungry or give refuge to the stranger or comfort to the mourner."
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"All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of souls who preceded you. The speech they weave is a link between you and your human siblings. The consequences that cause sorrow and rapture are the seeds that the past has sown in the field of the soul, and by which the future shall profit."
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"Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again."
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"A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read"
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"Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it."
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"Every person is a book, each year a chapter."
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"Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new."
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"The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it."
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"Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?"
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"In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him."
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"This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth."
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"It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I am going to talk about. He attracted me by three things: his candid simplicity, his marvelous familiarity with ancient armor, and the restfulness of his company--for he did all the talking."
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"I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time."
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"I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to unload a book that was taking too much room in their cellars, but you can never tell what a publisher will do. I have been one myself."
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"I don't want no better book than what your face is."
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"I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion."
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"More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain."
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"You need not expect to get your book right the first time."
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