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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.

People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.

There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

By words the mind is winged.

Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.