"A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge."
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"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish."
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"Fifty seven million children across the world don't want an iPhone, Xbox or chocolates. They want a book and pen."
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"For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives."
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"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either."
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"What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?"
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"You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel."
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"I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one."
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"Dishonest, which is Hillary Clinton in the eyes of the American people, beats crazy. Dishonest loses to normal. So, let's just pick somebody out of the phone book if we have to."
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"she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others."
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"While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and destroyed records rather than have to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the media. The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."
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"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."
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"Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him."
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"Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books."
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"Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort."
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"A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books."
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"We read books to find out who we are."
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"People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned."
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"I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence."
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"She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop."
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