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"The agenda of burning embassies and treading on flags has its objective, of which seeking an apology for defaming our prophet is not among them at all."

"I have nothing to add to the reply which has already been sent."

"When he was not busy doing math, he reads fat books covered with rough leather, on the pages of which can be seen very old, perfectly round holes dug out by medieval worms. Or else he passes through a…"

"Despite evidence to the contrary , there is still a widespread notion...that flying saucers are some kind of American joke..that the mystery has already been cleared up...and that there is nothing mor…"

"It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be …"

"If you want to appoint someone to help stop the spread of a lethal contagion, you would never think of Klain. But if you want to contain the Ebola episode so it stays as quiet as possible until after …"

"No furniture so charming as books."

"In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody."

"Personally, then I have no reason to lash out at the education system. Quite the contrary. Yet a lifetime of experience, plus a quarter century of reading and reflection, convince me that our educatio…"

"To write is to read one's own self"

"The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works."

"I hope, for your sake, that you have not chosen to read this book because you are in the mood for a pleasant experience. If this is the case, I advise you to put this book down instantaneously, becaus…"

"People may not like to meet bandits, especially on a dark night, but a taste for reading about them seems to be universal."

"Books always cost more in those cities where they are least read!"

"Hemingway was eager as a child, and I smiled remembering the first time I had seen him, at a Writers' Congress in New York. He was making his maiden public speech, and when it didn't read right, he go…"

"Reading … is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."

"Lord Peter Wimsey: Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development."

"Another great writer who led me on It this stage was Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. I had read all his novels but had never been able to understand why he had been honoured as a rishi. I myself was a nove…"

"The bourgeois ... considered the philosophes to be his true guides, which did not prevent him from taking good care not to adopt their teachings once he realized they might be damaging to the interest…"

"Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read-ultimately you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and …"