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I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't…
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Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.
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How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search…
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In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life.
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What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled…
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Nothing is as horrendous as imagining the times of happiness from an environment which is that of hell.
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Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted the intensity,…
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Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their…
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The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode,…
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I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?
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Head held high and lips parted, she breathed in the music, sending it through her torso and arms and legs the way…
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My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has a grayish…
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I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?
— Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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