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There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one.
There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
Words of love, are works of love.
Words of love, are works of love.
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He read more
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, read more
In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.