"We read to find out what the world……" — Ramona Koval
"We read to find out what the world is like, to experience lots of lives, not just the one we live. If it is true that our lives are chaotic and we crave a shape, stories are the shapes that we put on experience, containing all the wisdom in the world. We can even choose what kind of wisdom suits us."
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Ramona Koval
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11 Quotes by Ramona Koval
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Can we really be friends with those who don't love the books that we do? Of course we can, but…
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But, in the end, the books that surround me are the books that made me, through my reading (and misreading)…
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That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting…
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I realised that reading was the key that opened the door to secret lands, strange places and the worlds behind…
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It was disconcerting for the novel to seem so different when I re-read it. Of course we are a different…
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That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine,…
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Books that recount ordeals are precious because an ordeal is what we most fear, and the stories that tell us…
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True browsing means that we discover shelves and subjects that we could not have anticipated when we started. And the…
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I learned that books could be collected, that they were important enough to keep and that a story that seemed…
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Not only does art imitate life but life imitates art. Perhaps we not only learn about life from stories, perhaps…
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