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IF BOOKS ARE NOT GOOD COMPANY, WHERE WILL I FIND IT?

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

Having to read a footnote resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.

A BOOK IS A FRAGILE CREATURE, IT SUFFERS THE WEAR OF TIME, IT FEARS RODENTS, THE ELEMENTS, CLUMSY HANDS.

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalogue than nothing at all.

WHEN I GET A LITTLE MONEY, I BUY BOOKS; AND IF ANY IS LEFT, I BUY FOOD AND CLOTHES.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

ONE HATES AN AUTHOR THAT’S ALL AUTHOR.

A BOOK IS A MIRROR: IF AN ASS PEERS INTO IT, YOU CAN’T EXPECT AN APOSTLE TO LOOK OUT.

IT IS WHAT YOU READ WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE TO THAT DETERMINES WHAT YOU WILL BE WHEN YOU CAN’T HELP IT.

There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.

THE PERSON, BE IT GENTLEMAN OR LADY, WHO HAS NOT PLEASURE IN A GOOD NOVEL, MUST BE INTOLERABLY STUPID.

A MAN CAN NEVER HAVE TOO MUCH RED WINE, TOO MANY BOOKS, OR TOO MUCH AMMUNITION.

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

The only demand I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works.

BOOKS DON’T NEED BATTERIES.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

Oone should alwayd be drunk… With wine, with poetry, or with virtue as you choose. but get drunk