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Anne Fadiman has 36 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever…
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I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off…
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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 as to…
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Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman:…
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In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.
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Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on…
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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 completely unrelated…
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A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the…
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Housekeeping ain't no joke.
— Louisa May Alcott
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
— Virginia Woolf
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Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention…
— Robert Crippen
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Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a…
— Patrick Dempsey
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Being Dead means very light housekeeping
— Unknown Author
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To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion,…
— Samuel Beckett
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Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on…
— Edward Bernays
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Christ sayeth not, Abstain from the flesh, from marrying, from housekeeping, etc., as the Papists teach, for that were even to invite the devil…
— Martin Luther
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I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21,…
— Judith Krantz
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But housekeeping is fun. It is one job where you enjoy the results right along as you work. You may work all…
— Gladys Taber
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This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.
— Norm Dicks
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Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
— Henry David Thoreau
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