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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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“I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.”
― Ham on Rye
― Ham on Rye
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
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“When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.”
― Any Number Can Play
― Any Number Can Play
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
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