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People die when curiosity goes.
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If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of…
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When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in…
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What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.
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Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the…
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When people aren't expecting to be seen, they look their truest.
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There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress. It doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away.…
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What does education do, what does it have to offer, when deprived of its necessary partner, the future, and face instead with…
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I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively, and something goes…
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Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done by feel.…
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I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.
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I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen,…
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If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather…
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It [fiction] allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a…
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I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by…
— Ernest Gaines
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I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I…
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I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative…
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When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things.…
— Peter York
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I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.
— Claire Danes
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I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what…
— Claire Danes
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the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon
— Elizabeth Bowen
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I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.
— Julia Quinn
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My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I…
— Haruki Murakami
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Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am)…
— Noam Chomsky
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