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- Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be…
- There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of…
- As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
- It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
- I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
- To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even…
- The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their…
- Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These…
- My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of…
- There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that…
- We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the…
- libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's…
- To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen…
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