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Anne Fadiman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: August 7
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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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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.
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Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure
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I have never been able to resist a book about books.
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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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For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
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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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It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection, reveals a good deal about its owner.
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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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...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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I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.
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You can miss a lot by sticking to the point.
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When the Irish novelist John McGahern was a child, his sisters unlaced and removed one of his shoes while he was reading. He did not stir. They placed a straw hat on his head. No response. Only when they took away the wooden chair on which he was sitting did he, as he puts it, 'wake out of the book'.
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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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Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.
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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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I am very grateful to the electronic world for making my life easier, but there is something about holding a book - the smell and the world of association. Even when e-books are perfected, as they surely will be, it will be like being in bed with a very well-made robot rather than a warm, soft, human being whom you love.
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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.
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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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When I write after dark, observed Cyril Connolly, the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose
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