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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
“Fiction is empathy technology.”
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“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”
― Native Son
― Native Son
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
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Mike’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Mike’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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