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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…
• Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.
• How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search…
• In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life.
• What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled…
• Nothing is as horrendous as imagining the times of happiness from an environment which is that of hell.
• Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted the intensity,…
• Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their…
• The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode,…
• I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?
• Head held high and lips parted, she breathed in the music, sending it through her torso and arms and legs the way…
• 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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