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- A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
- I just try to put the thing out and hope somebody will read it. Someone says: 'Whom do you write for?' I reply: 'Do you…
- There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If…
- The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.
- A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?” The question is,…
- Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts.
- Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!
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