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  1. Matthew Pearl _ The Last Bookaneer

    E. C. FERGINS
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  2. Matthew Pearl _ The Last Bookaneer

    Books inspire a man to embrace the world or flee it. They start wars and end them. They make the men and women who write and publish them vast fortunes, and nearly as quickly can drive them into madness and despair. Stay away from what you do not fathom from now on...
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  3. Matthew Pearl _ The Last Bookaneer

    Teacher, tender comrade, wife,A fellow farer true through life,Heart whole and soul free,The August father gave to me.
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  4. Matthew Pearl _ The Last Bookaneer

    Stevenson threw back his head and made a slow murmuring sound, "If only I could secure a violent death.""Pardon?""What a fine success!" Stevenson continued, spurring Jack into a canter as he lost himself in his thoughts. "I wish to die in my boots, you see, Mr. Porter. To be drowned, to be shot, to be thrown from this horse into a ditch, Mr. Fergins--aye, to be hanged, rather than pass through the slow dissolution of illnesses!
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  5. Matthew Pearl _ The Last Bookaneer

    When I ply the cutlass and make the equivalent of sixpence, idiot conscience applauds me. But if I sit in the house and make twenty pounds by writing, idiot conscience wails over my neglect and the day wasted. No, to come down covered with mud and drenched with sweat and rain after some hours in the bush. To change, rub down, and take a chair in the verandah, that makes for a quiet conscience.
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  6. Matthew Pearl _ The Last Bookaneer

    These writers take the essence of every person around them, turn them into books and stories without permission or even a simple thank-you, and want all the credit and glory for themselves.
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  7. Matthew Pearl _ The Last Bookaneer

    that bookshops will one day disappear altogether and be replaced by mail order, that eventually books themselves would be finally and fully buried by that awful foe, so much cheaper and easier to carry: newspapers.
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  8. Matthew Pearl _ The Last Bookaneer

    He worshipped at the temple of her intellect and I believe it was a comfort to him to know that she left our world with it still shining.
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  9. Matthew Pearl _ The Last Bookaneer

    Beware the camel's nose-for its whole body will soon follow.
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  10. Matthew Pearl _ The Last Bookaneer

    People hate the idea of politicians, you see, but love the idea of authors, at least until they meet one.
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  11. Matthew Pearl _ The Last Bookaneer

    It is not when a man is at the end of his life, but when a man is at the end of his profession, that his soul shows itself.
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  12. Matthew Pearl _ The Last Bookaneer

    What's the use of having eyes if we can't see the world we pass through?
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