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"I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get drunk, go to church, go to analysts, or take part in demonstrations."
"It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part."
"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
"Prejudice is opinion without judgement."
"The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books"
"[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy; and really good books on these subjects are as enthralling as any fiction ever written in prose or verse."
"It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature."
"Beware the man of a single book."
"You're all alone when you're a writer. Sometimes you just feel you need a humanity bath. Even a ride on the subway will do that. But it's much more interesting to talk about books. After all, that's what life used to be for writers: they talk books, politics, history, America. Nothing has replaced that."
"If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all."
"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
"A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools."
"I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time."
"I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object."
"Some of the recipes in the book have evolved for us. Many haven't."
"The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base."
"I never planned on doing a book about Paul Farmer or his organization. I met him in Haiti when I was on a magazine assignment. It's almost like his story sort of fell in my lap."
"A boy has to peddle his book."
"And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing."
"The human race doesn't need more books telling them what to do. They need the power to do what they already know."
