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Books — the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom a

Books — the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity. – George Steiner

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We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his days work at Auschwitz in the morning. – George Steiner

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Morning
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Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow. – George Steiner

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Pornography
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Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. – John LeCarre

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Reading — the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay. – William Styron

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Books

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Books

In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation. – Stéphane Mallarmé

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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. – George Bernard Shaw

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Our… good Home-brewed Beer — which has been very deservedly called “Liquid Bread,” is preferable to any other Beverage during Dinner or Supper… – William Kitchiner (1775–1827), “Wine,” The Art of Invigorating and Prolong

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Every time you go in, its like starting over. You dont know how you did the other records. Youre learning all over. Its some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out. – Beck

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Life is a rough biography. Memories smooth out the edges. – Terri Guillemets

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