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I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on.

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I would never attempt to dissuade anyone from reading a book. But please, if you're reading something that's killing you, put it down and read somethi...more

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I'd hoped for someone who was remarkably intelligent, but disadvantaged by home circumstance, someone who only needed an hour's extra tuition a week t...more

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You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.

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I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books like "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "Love i...more

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A while back, when Dick & Barry & I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you *are* like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionna...more

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And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide whether you're a Person of ...more

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You may think that you don't want to read about the problems of being brought up Mennonite, but the great thing about books is that you'll read anythi...more

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I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

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The difference between sex with David and sex with Stephen is like the difference between science and art. With Stephen it's all empathy and imaginati...more

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No time spent with a book is ever entirely wasted, even if the experience is not a happy one: there’s always something to be learned. It’s just that, ...more

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I don’t have the heart to tell my sons that the older one gets, the less funny literature becomes—and they would refuse to believe me if I tried to ex...more

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I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.

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I don't mind nothing happening in a book, but nothing happening in a phony way--characters saying things people never say, doing jobs that don't fit, ...more

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Dave and Serge...played the Fiddler's Elbow as if it were Giants Stadium, and even though it was acoustic, they just about blew the place up. They wer...more