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"I may not know enough about the subject to enjoy this book to its fullest." — Jul 26, 2014 05:24PM
"I may not know enough about the subject to enjoy this book to its fullest." — Jul 26, 2014 05:24PM
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"Never finished. I already read The Satanic Verses." — Nov 30, 2018 02:12PM
"Never finished. I already read The Satanic Verses." — Nov 30, 2018 02:12PM
“If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.”
― The Insufferable Gaucho
― The Insufferable Gaucho
“Every hundred feet the world changes”
― 2666
― 2666
“Without turning, the pharmacist answered that he liked books like The Metamorphosis, Bartleby, A Simple Heart, A Christmas Carol. And then he said that he was reading Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's. Leaving aside the fact that A Simple Heart and A Christmas Carol were stories, not books, there was something revelatory about the taste of this bookish young pharmacist, who ... clearly and inarguably preferred minor works to major ones. He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby Dick, he chose A Simple Heart over Bouvard and Pecouchet, and A Christmas Carol over A Tale of Two Cities or The Pickwick Papers. What a sad paradox, thought Amalfitano. Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze a path into the unknown. They choose the perfect exercises of the great masters. Or what amounts to the same thing: they want to watch the great masters spar, but they have no interest in real combat, when the great masters struggle against that something, that something that terrifies us all, that something that cows us and spurs us on, amid blood and mortal wounds and stench.”
― 2666
― 2666
“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
― 2666
― 2666
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