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Anne Fadiman has 36 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever…
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I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off…
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For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
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Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.
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It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.
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If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering--naked and alone
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One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to…
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Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman:…
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In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.
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Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on…
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It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated…
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A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the…
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I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and…
— Charles Barkley
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When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every…
— Ian Mckellen
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I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.
— Thia Megia
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With NOAH, you can create some stunning, yet original soundscapes. Therefore, as a performance tool, it really comes into its own because…
— Geoff Downes
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...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single…
— Anne Fadiman
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The Tonys are the once-a-year shot for all of these shows and artists who work so diligently every single performance but only…
— Neil Patrick Harris
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I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance. I've never believed my critics or my worshippers, and…
— Charles Barkley
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