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A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug. - George

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug. – George Borrow

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If you must commit suicide… always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of. – George Borrow

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I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget. – William Lyon Phelps

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Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death hath no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever. – J. Swartz

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The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life which does not include at least two hypochondriacs, one sadist, and one old man who spills food down the front of his vest. – Robert Benchley

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The book borrower…proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures…as by his failure to read these books. – Walter Benjamin

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Our democratic capitalist society has converted Eros into an employee of Mammon. – Octavio Paz

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