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- I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read…
- Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff…
- Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.
- The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
- Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a…
- I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I…
- All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children....
- If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and…
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