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“It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.” quote by Norman Rush — Download Open image

“It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.”

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“Nina said, “Have regular facial expressions.” That was a command from their inventory of facetious devices they used to josh one another out of…

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Literature is humanity talking to itself.

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I feel like someone after a deluge being asked to describe the way it was before the flood while I'm still plucking seaweed out…

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“And the question was still there of whether their true interior selves—the subtle bodies inside—were still there and functioning despite what age and accident and force of circumstance may have done to hurt them. He meant something like that … that when they had become friends it had been a friendship established between subtle bodies, by which he meant the ingredients of…

“The main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you…

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...There is a school of thought, a heresy from the madhouse of heresies in the ninth century, that says God is good and is…

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The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

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I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.

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“There is no permanent friendship between men, among men. Something goes wrong, somebody marries the wrong person, somebody advances too fast, somebody converts, somebody…

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“Now everything was going to be impossible, but better.”

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“A utopia I would join in a minute is a society which could be communist or capitalist, anything, except that no woman member of…

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I wanted to incorporate everything, understand everything, because time is cruel and nothing stays the same.

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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

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My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

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Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

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“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

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The Rosary is the book of the blind.

Fulton J. Sheen

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“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

Christopher K. Krebs

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“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

Louisa May Alcott

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

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I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

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