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“Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience is stupid. The audience only wants to go this deep. Poor us, we're marginalized because of TV, the great hypnotic blah, blah." You can sit around and have these pity parties for yourself. Of course this is bullshit. If an art form is marginalized it's because it's not speaking to people. One possible reason is that the people it's speaking to have become too stupid to appreciate it. That seems a little easy to me.”
― David Foster Wallace

“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”
― Heinrich Heine

“In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.”
― Marcel Proust

“If there’s a magic pony in the story, chances are I’ll read it.”
― Chris Adrian