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Philip Roth
“Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”
Philip Roth

Shelby Foote
“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
Shelby Foote

W.G. Sebald
“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

Harold Pinter
“When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing.”
Harold Pinter, Ashes to Ashes

James Baldwin
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
James Baldwin

45 Philip Roth... is awesome. — 187 members — last activity Jan 27, 2019 02:11PM
Pretty much what you were expecting.
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