"...the reader who plucks a book from her……" — Anne Fadiman
"...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again."
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36 Quotes by Anne Fadiman
Anne Fadiman has 36 quotes on this site.
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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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For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
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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 have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending…
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The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly…
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After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of…
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We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in…
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Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept…
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I still get excited just attending a final four, because the process is so long, so arduous, so challenging, that…
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The best way to economize time is to 'lose' half an hour each day attending Holy Mass.
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As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement…
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Births and deaths are inevitable for man only during the state of ignorance in which he thinks he is the…
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It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every…
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