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Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

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Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

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Without story books is like a person with no soul.

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A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.

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Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't ca...more

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If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the...more

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And as I thought about the body of Ray Brower in this light- or lack of it- what I felt was not queasiness or fear that he would suddenly appear befor...more

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Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries,hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.

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The eyes were damned, the staring, glaring eyes of one who sees but does not see, eyes ever turned inward to the sterile hell of dreams beyond control...more

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Quiet people have the loudest minds.

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Monsters are real and ghosts are real too they live inside us and sometimes they win.

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When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds to...more

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Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?

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Henry did not want to be fixed, was somehow convinced that the fix would be a lie, something that would lessen him.

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You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a big OUT OF ORDER sign on it.