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- My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.
- Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is…
- Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.
- I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have read me many…
- Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we…
- Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they…
- I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all…
- You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?
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