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I've never really read any books about Washington, neither the politics nor the city.
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I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
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Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
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If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
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If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.
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If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.
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If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.
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If the secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader.
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If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times over, and over, and over, and that if you want to write at a good level, you'll have to do that too.
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In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
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In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point by point, acting in the conduct of public affairs. No longer merely an ultimate check on government, they were in some sense the government.
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In my own experience as a C.E.O., I would find myself laying awake at 3 A.M. asking questions about my business, and there weren't management books out there that could help me.
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
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In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
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In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
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In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
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