I sometimes lie awake at night, picturing the perfect era to live in, a habit that shows a love for history and imagination. The quotes also highlight how books build empathy and skepticism, and they stress that a fair society should give everyone a living wage.
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Michael Dirda is a literary critic, best known for Richard Peabody Reader.
![“Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics - feel that [Kurt] Vonnegut started to repeat himself, to grow increasingly self-indulgent and meandering, and to sometimes just blather in his later work. But his books up…” quote by Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ed7/michael-dirda-3414_1960s_nearly-all-the-writing-of-our-time-is-li_13506.jpg)
