‘There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.'
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'But if a stranger in a train asks me my occupation I never answer 'writer' for fear that he may go on to ask me what I write, and to answer 'poetry' would embarrass us both, for we both know that nobody can earn a living simply by writing poetry.'