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A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
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A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.
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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.
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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
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A movie grants a visa. A book makes you a citizen.
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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
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A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
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A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
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After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.
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Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was all it took for me to write my first book. Don't get discouraged if a holiday or illness interrupts your writing habit. Just start it up again.
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