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• To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility…
• There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything…
• If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least…
• Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.
• Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a…
• We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
• People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have…
• Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.
• The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.
• I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.
• The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
• A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river.…

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