"Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence……" — Maureen Corrigan
"Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's a sign of a healthy or energetic culture."
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11 Quotes by Maureen Corrigan
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It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion…
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The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old…
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To read Helen Macdonald's memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at…
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All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page…
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We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of…
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Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.
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It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my…
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According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a…
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I think, consciously or not, what we readers do each time we open a book is to set off a…
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In our daily lives, where we're bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop,…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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