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Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.
Anne Fadiman
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Anne Fadiman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: August 7
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when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says Private - grownups keep out: a children sprawled on the bed, reading.
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My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were on their shelves.
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If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering--naked and alone
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If my father were still writing essays, every full-grown 'girl' would probably be transformed into a'woman'.
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One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form.
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I have never been able to resist a book about books.
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Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.
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In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.
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I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.
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Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure
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A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the cover laminated in plastic so her daughter could cut her teeth on the great thinker.
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...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again.
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The action most worth watching is not at the center of things, but where edges meet.
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Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.
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I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.
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I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.
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E-mail is a modern Penny Post: the world is a single city with a single postal rate.
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One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.
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I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.
Anne Fadiman
Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.
Anne Fadiman
