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“Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.”

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It takes along time to grow an old friend

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Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

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“For Pol Pot, as for every other kamikaze of Kingdom Come, "the goal was not to destroy but to transmute." We have heard this…

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

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In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame…

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“Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interesting novel ever since a sports car ate…

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Television is a corporate vulgarity.

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“I was going to suggest some hard-won guidelines for responsible reviewing. For instance: First, as in Hippocrates, do no harm. Second, never stoop to…

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“Books are where we go alone to complicate ourselves. Inside this solitude, we take on contours, textures, perspectives. Heightened language levitates the reader. Great…

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Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite.

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“It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of…

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The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

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The Rosary is the book of the blind.

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I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

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I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

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It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't…

Patrick Rothfuss

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I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

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Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society…

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“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and…

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There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

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The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

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