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“Tất cả những ai yêu đọc sách đều hiểu rằng sách có quyền năng siêu việt đưa bạn thoát khỏi bản thể và thâm nhập vào tâm trí của người khác, để ít nhất trong một khoảnh khắc, bạn ngắm nhìn thế giới qua đôi mắt khác. Đó có thể là một trải nghiệm không dễ chịu, nhất là khi bạn đọc cuốn sách của một nền văn hóa có thể có những giá trị hoàn toàn khác với bạn.”
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“Beyond the offer tables and online bestseller charts are many other narratives: books that take readers away from what they know, challenge the assumptions that underpin life elsewhere and present a strikingly different world [“How Books Get Lost In translation,” Financial Times, January 15, 2015].”
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“Oh yes, you’ve got questions. You want to know how it is that they’re sitting on that side of the desk and you’re sitting here. You want them to let you in on the secret of ‘normal’ and what it really means. You wonder how it’s possible in a world of Friends and novelty ringbinders for people to be shackled to a radiator so tightly they bleed, like the girl up the corridor was by her stepfather, or punched in the face until their bones go like jelly and the doctors have to rebuild them piece by piece.
But you have learnt these are not the questions people like this answer. They want easy questions. Questions they can see round the edges of. Questions you could probably answer by yourself if you gave it any thought.
So you don’t say anything. You shrug and shake your head, and let them dot the ‘i’s and cross the ‘t’s of your future as they see fit. Let them bring it, all of it, as much as they can manage: whatever it is, it can’t be worse than what you’ve already been through.”
― Beside Myself
But you have learnt these are not the questions people like this answer. They want easy questions. Questions they can see round the edges of. Questions you could probably answer by yourself if you gave it any thought.
So you don’t say anything. You shrug and shake your head, and let them dot the ‘i’s and cross the ‘t’s of your future as they see fit. Let them bring it, all of it, as much as they can manage: whatever it is, it can’t be worse than what you’ve already been through.”
― Beside Myself
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