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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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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
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A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
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A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there - that of the pulse, the heart beat.
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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A book is like a man: clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break th
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
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A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
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A book that furnishes no quotations is no book, it is a plaything.
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A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
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A cashmere knit is like a book. It is something to save and go back to time after time. It is the feeling of an embrace.
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A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
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A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.
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