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Suddenly he felt disgusted with his linguistic niceties. Gulping down thick slices of bread and jam, sipping his second coffee, he said to himself: When the whole planet has been destroyed by atom bombs or hydrogen bombs, what difference ...more
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Michael Cunningham
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
Michael Cunningham, The Hours

Daniel Pennac
“We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable but we read because we know we're alone. Reading offers a kind of companionship that takes no one's place but that no one can replace either. It offers no definitive explanation of our destiny but links us inextricably to life. Its tiny secret links remind us of how paradoxically happy we are to be alive while illuminating how tragically absurd life is.”
Daniel Pennac

Daniel Pennac
“If you`re wondering how you`ll find time, it means you don`t really want to read. Because nobody`s ever got time. Children certainly haven`t, nor have teenagers or grown-ups. Life always gets in the way. <...>
Time to read is always time stolen. <...>
Stolen from what?
From the tyranny of living.”- p.125”
Daniel Pennac

“Единственото, което имахме в изобилие, бяха книгите. Те бяха навсякъде: от пода до тавана, в коридора, в кухнята, във входното антре, по первазите на прозорците. Хиляди книги, изпълнили всяко кътче в апартамента. Имах чувството, че хората идват и си отиват, раждат се и умират, но книгите са вечни. Като малък мечатех да стана книга. Не писател- хората мряха като мухи, писателите не правеха изключение. Но не и книгите. Колкото и систематично да ги изтребваш, винаги има вероятност някой екземпляр да оцелее и да продължи да се наслаждава на живота от някоя лавица в ъгъла на забравена от Бога библиотека в Рейкявик, Валядолид или Ванкувър".”
Амос Оз

Zadie Smith
“If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein, and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made.”
Zadie Smith, White Teeth

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