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"The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery."
"How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself."
"I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books"
"I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance."
"A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us."
"There's an interesting book by the former Brazilian ambassador Celso Amorim. In 2010, he initiated an effort along with Turkey to settle the whole Iran issue. Nobody outside of the United States takes it to be much of an issue. They made a deal with Iran for Iran to essentially give away its low enriched uranium to Turkey for storage, and in return, the Western powers. It was immediately scratched by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. And the main reason was they didn't want anybody else to be involved in it. We were supposed to run things, but we didn't say that."
"If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along."
"Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated."
"To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text."
"A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am. Everything that was literature has fallen from me. There are no more books to be written, thank God. This then? This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty . . . what you will."
"If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful!"
"I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books."
"I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books."
"It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much."
"The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!"
"In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book."
"Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!"
"No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access."
"Sad stories make good books"
"I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people."
