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My parents were in the book business, my brothers still run the Dutton bookstores in Los Angeles, and I've been interested in editing books and journals all of my life. Denis Dutton

Life Business Book Editing My Life Parents Books Bookstores Run Angeles Brothers Journals Still Los Los Angeles Were Been Interested

It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire of established reader interests. Denis Dutton

You Mistake Try Internet About Reader Print Talking Limited Repertoire Established Whether Interests Publication Grave Play Publishing

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time. Edmund Hillary

Time No-One Remembers Climbed Mount Mount Everest Who Everest Second

My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too. Edmund Hillary

Beautiful Important Building Too Projects Restore Maintaining Most Schools Dear Been Clinics Friends Helping Medical

There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation. Edmund Hillary

You Giving Building Believe Pleasant Peers Everything Dangers About Something Feats Comradeship Sharing Greatest Got Still Up Very Effort Intense Sensation Really Your Company

I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better. Edmund Hillary

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I've - if it did occur - that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it. Edmund Hillary

Time Too Much Think Thinking Too Spend Fuss Would About Like Make Occur Lot Did Die Dying Much Peacefully

When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people. Edmund Hillary

Relationship People Built Climbing Up Close Close Relationship

I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it. Edmund Hillary

Hate Like Just Being Icon

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer. Edmund Hillary

Good Think Sensible

It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it. Edmund Hillary

You Pay Adventure Real

I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary. Edmund Hillary

Challenge Down Scared Pretty Scary Part Fell Times Many Everest

My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday. Edmund Hillary

Relationship Year National Mountains Down Group Every Park Taken National Park Grammar Holiday Skiing Used Actually Started

The readership of Victorian novels, when they were published, was much less diverse. People were probably white, and had enough money to be literate. Very often, there are phrases in Italian, German and French that are left untranslated. Eleanor Catton

People Money White Enough Enough Money Phrases Diverse Had Had Enough French Readership Were Italian Left German Very Often Literate Victorian Much Less Novels Published

A trip to the picture framer's, with a selection of prints, is the most joyous outing I can imagine. I've spent more money on framing than on anything else I own. Eleanor Catton

Money Picture Own Else Framing Spent Trip Outing More Selection Most Joyous Prints Than Anything Anything Else Imagine

The zodiac is a system a person can play with and see meaning in. Eleanor Catton

System See Person Meaning Play

I don't feel like literature has the power to alienate. I think that's something people feel if they don't connect with a work of art. But I don't think a work of art can actively reject the person who's looking at it or reading it. Eleanor Catton

Work Art People Power Looking Reading Think Alienate Something Something People Feel Like Person Literature Connect Actively Reject

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