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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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When Peter Beardsley appears on television, daleks hide behind the sofa.
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When it comes to art, buy with your eyes, not your ears. I tried very hard not to 'decorate' with art. Art…
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There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself…
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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It's cool. One of the dudes who I made my album with who I'm a very good friend of for quite a…
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and…
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