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Reader Quotes by William H. Gass
- For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.
- Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding…
- When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.
- We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who do, who take…
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