“Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”
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“Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.”
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“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
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