"Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which……" — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
"Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played."
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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12 Quotes by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Lynne Sharon Schwartz has 12 quotes on this site.
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I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me…
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How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has…
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More Backdrop Quotes
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They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.
— Victor Borge
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The breathtaking inanity of the [school] Board's decision is evident when considered against the factual backdrop which has now been…
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Japan is a wonderful country, a strange mixture of ancient mystique and cyberpunk saturation. It's a monolith of society's achievements,…
— Corey Taylor
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Netanyahu and his coalition have no strategy of their own except endless counterinsurgency against the backdrop of a steadily deteriorating…
— Unknown Author
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Each of us carries around those growing up places, the institutions, a sort of backdrop, a stage set. So often…
— Chandra Talpade Mohanty
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There are people who have no engaged conversation with the land whatsoever, no sense of its beauty or extremes or…
— Ellen Meloy
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I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as…
— Lydia Lunch
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When you refuse to teach on the radical depravity of men, it is an impossibility that you bring glory to…
— Paul Washer
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Ultimately, users visit your website for its content. Everything else is just the backdrop.
— Jakob Nielsen
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Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical…
— Sara Gruen
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Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.
— Tamara Ecclestone
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I’m not sad, but the boys who are looking for sad girls always find me. I’m not a girl anymore…
— Warsan Shire
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