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Stephen Vizinczey has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an…
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We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.
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Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was…
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You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.
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Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.
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Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.
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The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
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The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he…
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When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
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Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a…
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Whenever you hear the word "inevitable", watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.
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The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of…
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Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about,…
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Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The…
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Rereading, we find a new book.
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Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far we've come;…
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The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love…
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A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.
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I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a…
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We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor…
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The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.
— Vince Vaughn
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Thou shalt not let a day pass without rereading something great.
— Stephen Vizinczey
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Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the…
— R. A. Lafferty
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I would love to meet J.K. Rowling and tell her how much I admire her writing and am amazed by her imagination.…
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