“And every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling, “This is important! And this is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this!” And each day, it’s up to you to yank your hand back, put it on your heart and say, “No. This is what’s important.”
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“The way a book is read- which is to say,
the qualities a reader brings to a book- can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.”
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the qualities a reader brings to a book- can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.”
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“Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.”
― Society and Solitude
― Society and Solitude
“If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.”
― Black Swan Green
― Black Swan Green
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