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“A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.”
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“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
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“He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.”
― An Abundance of Katherines
― An Abundance of Katherines
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
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