Reading is first and foremost non-reading. Even in the case of the most passionate lifelong readers, the act of picking up and opening a book masks the countergesture that occurs at the same time: the involuntary act of not picking up and
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“It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.”
― Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man
― Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man
“He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone.
-from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.”
― A Memory of Light
-from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.”
― A Memory of Light
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
― Neuromancer
― Neuromancer
“There are only two kinds of people in our town. The stupid and the stuck."”
― Beautiful Creatures
― Beautiful Creatures
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