- Possession
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Library
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.
- Nov 07, 2020
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
- Beyond
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
- Dogma
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every dogma has its day.
- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't think; I experimented.
- Common Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
- Bath
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy journalism; anybody does. You see the results immediately; you've got an immediate audience instead of having to wait for your audience as you do if you're writing a book, and you get a bit of money coming in, and you can see more clearly how you're paying the bills. But it's not a good position for the serious novelist to be in.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020