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A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

World Fiction Fit Likely
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The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

Mind Admirable Good Book
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My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.

Appeared Big Big Screen Bring
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Again Book Cannot Enjoy
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

Bread Does Effort Force
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

Back Bread Cast Floating
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Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

Best Different First More
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I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where's my girlfriend?

Because Doing Else Feel
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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Books Reading You
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We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.

Read Hope Strange
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We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.
Read Frequently Quest Original
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Capable Doing Done Feel
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Could Disarm Each Enemies
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I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.
Kid Read Reading Stand
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Dread Liberty Means Men
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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Marriage Great Institution But
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I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough.

Naive Read Incessantly People
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Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.
Nature Believe
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We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.

Read Frequently Mind
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The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.

Art Passion Reading
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Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Reading Pleasure Solitude You
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Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.

Criticism Imagination Literature Soul
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I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.

Think History I
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In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
Critics Cry Finest Full
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The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists ourselves...The art of reading poetry is an authentic training in the augmentation of consciousness, perhaps the most authentic of healthy modes.

Art Poetry Consciousness
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Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

Adolescence Come Criticism Even
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I, perhaps wrongly, assume that people actually read articles that interest them rather than just headlines.

Actually Articles Assume Headlines
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

Act Answerable Creative Creative Act
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.

Always Books Darker Drama
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Biggest Books Critics Never
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Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?

Does Five Hours Minutes
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I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

All-Around Around Article Book
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I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.

About Anything Believe Know
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I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.

About Accepted Away Became
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I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

Baby Books Both Each
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

About Always Attached Craving
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This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Trust Proud Fear Avoid
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

About Anybody Basically Caught
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Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.

Bible Hundred Man Read
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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
Also Constantly Good Like
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Because Beds Behalf Men
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The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

Been Facts Foresee Future
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People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.

Changed Example Give Handed
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

My Alma Mater Was
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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

If You Are Not
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

Am IAm Kind Other
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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
Ask Give Given Lecture
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There must be a thread in everything I choose to take on, and I can't say it's a calculated thread, but I think you end up doing the work that's resonating with you.

Calculated Choose Doing End
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Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
Friend Nature Read Truth
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Poor Dream Feet Softly
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