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Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large…
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It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise…
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We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.
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This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on…
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I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a…
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I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.
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As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.
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Hitler suffered acutely from meteorism; perhaps he did not suffer so acutely as those around him, since meteorism is uncontrolled farting, a…
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In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper.
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One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of…
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My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the…
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I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with…
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I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.
— Celia Green
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In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
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Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need…
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People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have…
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The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of…
— Donna Tartt
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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.
— A. N. Wilson
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Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!
— Keegan Allen
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Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.
— Peter Ackroyd
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I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last…
— Seth Godin
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
— E. M. Forster
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I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
— Vikram Seth
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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