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It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.
Anne Fadiman
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Anne Fadiman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: August 7
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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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The action most worth watching is not at the center of things, but where edges meet.
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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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To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown, you've only pressed Pause.
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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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If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.
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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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Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.
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When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer indifferent housekeeping, sleeping cats, and sufficient organizational chaos.
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Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.
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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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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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I have never been able to resist a book about books.
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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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Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.
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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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I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.
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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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I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.
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