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- Somebody who had read Lila asked me, ‘Why do you write about the problem of loneliness?’ I said: ‘It’s not a problem. It’s a condition.…
- I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The same thing influences…
- I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than…
- I like to read in my own house, in any of the rooms I always mean to paint or otherwise improve and never do. Every…
- I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less…
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