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Ben Martizz
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“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
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“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
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