"My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books."
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"I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes."
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"All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook."
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"A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul."
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"Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books."
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"I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book."
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"A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book."
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"We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once."
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"Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol."
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"My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat as an ingredient, I don't quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes."
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"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."
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"The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned."
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"As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be."
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"Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world."
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"Great is bookishness and the charm of books."
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"A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators."
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"If I'm engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they might think I was strange."
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"Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard."
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"The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible."
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"Thirty or forty years ago, in one those grey towns along the Burlington railroad which are so much greyer to-day than they were then, there was a house well know from Omaha to Denver for its hospitality and for a certain charm of atmosphere."
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