Christina Stead - Book Quotes

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To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree — just good for cutting up and building your house with.

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He could not read more than a few consecutive sentences in any book or newspaper unless they referred immediately to himself or his interests.

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