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> [Sometimes, when I couldn’t afford to pay the utility bill at the end of the month, I was forced to read by the light of the stories themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-stern/sometimes-when-i-couldn-t-afford-to-pay-the-utility-bill-at-the-end/)

[Steve Stern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-stern/)

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## More by Steve Stern

> [Walter Benjamin has this notion of the angel of history and in a way that's paradoxical itself. We don't have angels in history anymore.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-stern/walter-benjamin-has-this-notion-of-the-angel-of-history-and-in-a-way/)

[Steve Stern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-stern/)

> [The Holocaust marooned the Jewish people in history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-stern/the-holocaust-marooned-the-jewish-people-in-history/)

[Steve Stern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-stern/)

> [The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap mythologies with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-stern/the-interface-of-history-and-myth-is-where-my-stories-take-place/)

[Steve Stern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-stern/)

> [Sometimes, when I couldn’t afford to pay the utility bill at the end of the month, I was forced to read by the light…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-stern/sometimes-when-i-couldn-t-afford-to-pay-the-utility-bill-at-the-end/)

[Steve Stern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-stern/)

> [“The golem is for Franz Kafka big headache.." The ache, he confided, grew in Kafka's head, spreading throughout his bones, his joints swelling until…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-stern/the-golem-is-for-franz-kafka-big-headache-the-ache-he-confided-grew/)

[Steve Stern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-stern/)

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