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First Love, Last Rites

by Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)

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“Well, as the boys said, you had to work somewhere. So they accepted what there was. This was the wisdom of the slave.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

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“Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.”
― Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

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“An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

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“Anxious for some permanency, I guess I needed to be reminded how temporal permanency is.”
― Patti Smith, M Train: A Memoir

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“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."

(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
― Patti Smith

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