"I have never been able to resist a…" — Anne Fadiman

"I have never been able to resist a book about books."

— Anne Fadiman

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36 Quotes by Anne Fadiman

Anne Fadiman has 36 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that…
I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to…
For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.
It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.
If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering--naked and alone
One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well…
Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to…
In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh…
Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa,…
It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious…
A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback,…

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