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“My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.”
― The Principles of Uncertainty
― The Principles of Uncertainty
“I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J.K. Rowling rather than Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll.”
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“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
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“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
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“The creator of Sir John Falstaff, of Hamlet, and of Rosalind also makes me wish I could be more myself. But that, as I argue throughout this book, is why we should read, and why we should read only the best of what has been written.”
― How to Read and Why
― How to Read and Why
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