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Lynne Sharon Schwartz has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't…
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Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.
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How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search…
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In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life.
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What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled…
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Nothing is as horrendous as imagining the times of happiness from an environment which is that of hell.
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Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted the intensity,…
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Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their…
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The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode,…
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I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?
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Head held high and lips parted, she breathed in the music, sending it through her torso and arms and legs the way…
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My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has a grayish…
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Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
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Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not…
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It must have meant something, though, that at this turn of my life I grabbed up a book. Because it was in…
— Alice Munro
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Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm; he's cool; he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in…
— Dee Dee Myers
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I think the reason I was able to get the jobs I did is because I worked for some very strong, self-possessed…
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if…
— Denis Diderot
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Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their…
— Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever,…
— Yann Martel
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There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.
— Carrie Fisher
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I keep three framed photographs on my desk: the latest school picture of my daughter; a photo of my wife getting her…
— Blake Bailey
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Boasting is often carried by certain Americans to the extreme. Often however it is areaction against slights, an effort to veil deficiencies,…
— Unknown Author
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