"For me, literature is a way of enlarging……" — Anne Fadiman
"For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me."
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36 Quotes by Anne Fadiman
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Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that…
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I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to…
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Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.
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It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.
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If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering--naked and alone
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One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well…
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Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to…
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In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh…
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Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa,…
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It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious…
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A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback,…
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I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.
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More Enlarging Quotes
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As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey;…
— Cleveland Abbe
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I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished…
— Bill Brandt
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The enlarging of the soul requires not only some remodeling, but some excavating.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our…
— Anselm of Canterbury
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The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the…
— Francis Bacon
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Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal…
— Joan Aiken
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If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't…
— Claes Oldenburg
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Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects;…
— Leigh Hunt
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This my goodness does to endow the souls of the just more fully with spiritual riches when for my love…
— St. Catherine of Siena
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The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in…
— Walter Scott
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If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will…
— Mortimer Adler
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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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