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> [“He began to see a kind of beauty in the strangeness of the field, too. It was quite different from what he had been taught to expect —as he had already discovered, were many of the things in this world—yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-tevis/he-began-to-see-a-kind-of-beauty-in-the-strangeness-of-the-field-too/)

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## More by Walter Tevis

> [I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-tevis/i-feel-free-and-strong-if-i-were-not-a-reader-of-books-i-could-not/)

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> [“And winning; that can be heavy on your back, too, like a monkey. You drop that load too when you find yourself an excuse."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-tevis/and-winning-that-can-be-heavy-on-your-back-too-like-a-monkey-you-drop/)

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> [“Reading is too intimate,' Spofforth said. 'It will put you too close to the feelings and ideas of others. It will disturb and confuse…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-tevis/reading-is-too-intimate-spofforth-said-it-will-put-you-too-close-to/)

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> [Reading is the subtle and thorough sharing of the ideas and feelings by underhanded means. It is a gross invasion of Privacy and a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-tevis/reading-is-the-subtle-and-thorough-sharing-of-the-ideas-and-feelings/)

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> [“It changed the life of mankind more radically than the printing press. It created suburbs and a hundred other dependencies—sexual and economic and narcotic—upon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-tevis/it-changed-the-life-of-mankind-more-radically-than-the-printing-press/)

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> [“He was sick, sick from the long dangerous trip he had taken, sick from all the medicine —the pills, the inoculations, the inhaled gases…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-tevis/he-was-sick-sick-from-the-long-dangerous-trip-he-had-taken-sick-from/)

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> [“There had been a few times over the past year when she felt like this, with her mind not only dizzied but nearly terrified…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-tevis/there-had-been-a-few-times-over-the-past-year-when-she-felt-like-this/)

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> [The strange thing about television is that it - doesn't \*tell\* you everything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-tevis/the-strange-thing-about-television-is-that-it-doesn-t-tell-you/)

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> [“Only the mockingbird sings at the edge of the woods.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-tevis/only-the-mockingbird-sings-at-the-edge-of-the-woods/)

[Walter Tevis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-tevis/)

> [“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-tevis/i-feel-free-and-strong-if-i-were-not-a-reader-of-books-i-could-not-2/)

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> [New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-tevis/new-york-is-nearly-a-grave-the-empire-state-building-is-its-gravestone/)

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> [“It all began, I suppose, with learning to build fires—to warm the cave and keep the predators out. And it ended with time-release Valium.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-tevis/it-all-began-i-suppose-with-learning-to-build-fires-to-warm-the-cave/)

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> [“He began to see a kind of beauty in the strangeness of the field, too. It was quite different from what he had been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-tevis/he-began-to-see-a-kind-of-beauty-in-the-strangeness-of-the-field-too/)

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