"I keep an ongoing list of my fifty……" — Kevin Brockmeier
"I keep an ongoing list of my fifty favorite books, which I recalibrate whenever I discover a new one that seems to demand a spot there."
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20 Quotes by Kevin Brockmeier
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People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who…
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With every sentence she writes, Davis freshens the senses. Her novels achieve a tone that’s unlike anyone else’s, creating an…
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There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to…
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A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the…
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Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it…
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Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much or too little. You can have love…
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There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.
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...When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's…
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You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and…
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You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of…
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How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you…
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Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day…
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to…
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is…
— Isaac Asimov
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I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,…
— Sean Astin
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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
— Margaret Atwood
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Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the…
— Margaret Atwood
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Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But…
— Margaret Atwood
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I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed…
— Margaret Atwood
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I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody…
— Margaret Atwood
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If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a…
— Margaret Atwood
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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