“ We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars. ”
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“ The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait." (About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling, New York Times, February 22, 1987) ”
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“ A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall. Books perfume and give weight to a room. A bookcase is as good as a view, as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books storms, fogs, zephyrs. I read about a family whose apartment consists of a series of spaces so strictly planned that they are obliged to give away their books as soon as they've read them. I think they have misunderstood the way books work. Reading a book is only the first step in the relationship. After you've finished it, the book enters on its real career. It stand there as a badge, a blackmailer, a monument, a scar. It's both a flaw in the room, like a crack in the plaster, and a decoration. The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. in "About books; recoiling, rereading, retelling", The New York Times, February 22, 1987 ”
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“ The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait." (About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling, New York Times, February 22, 1987) ”
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“ A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall. Books perfume and give weight to a room. A bookcase is as good as a view, as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books storms, fogs, zephyrs. I read about a family whose apartment consists of a series of spaces so strictly planned that they are obliged to give away their books as soon as they've read them. I think they have misunderstood the way books work. Reading a book is only the first step in the relationship. After you've finished it, the book enters on its real career. It stand there as a badge, a blackmailer, a monument, a scar. It's both a flaw in the room, like a crack in the plaster, and a decoration. The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. in "About books; recoiling, rereading, retelling", The New York Times, February 22, 1987 ”
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“ There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. ”
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“ The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or reads for them. ”
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“ The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or reads for them. ”
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“ The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles. ”
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“ To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding. ”
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“ There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. ”
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“ There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. ”
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“ There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. ”
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“ There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. ”
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“ Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety. ”
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“ The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or reads for them. ”
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“ The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or reads for them. ”
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“ If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times. ”
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“ If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times. ”
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“ There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. ”
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“ People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work. ”
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“ She was a spendthrift of the spirit, an American in Paris when, as Evelyn Waugh said, the going was good. ”
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“ The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles. ”
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“ Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. ”
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“ Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. ”
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“ Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth. ”
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