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He said, this was the first time in his experience that an unknown writer had complained about a book cover.

— Elaine Dundy Afterword to The Dud Avocado (2006)

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Each feels the other has no manners, is disloyal, corrupt, insensitive — and has never put in an honest day's work in its life.

Elvis and Gladys (1985)

And eventually we will make sense of it.

A Stranger Comes to Town (2001)

I'd always prided myself on how unlike my books were from each other in settings and subject matter.

A Stranger Comes to Town (2001)

I kept crying, knowing that I would never go back to seeing what I used to see.

Then after his death in London in taxis, on radio and TV I heard nothing but Elvis records and that grabbed my attention.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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