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“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
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“Stories are magic, and that is why the first thing any dictator does is to ban the stories that do not agree with him.”
― The Great Forgetting
― The Great Forgetting
“On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
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“And did I pass?" The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left the younger woman said, "You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“The books we read help to shape who we are. Reading offers us, as children, our first independence- allowing us to travel far beyond the confines of our immediate world. Books introduce us to great figures in history, narratives that stir our spirit, fictions that tug us out of ourselves and into the lives of a thousand others, and visions of every era through which human beings have lived. And in the process of stretching who we are, books also connect us to all others- of our own or previous times- who have read what we've read. In the community of readers, we instantly become linked to those who share our love for specific characters or passages.
A well-composed book,' says Caroline Gordon, 'is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
― The Quotable Book Lover
A well-composed book,' says Caroline Gordon, 'is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
― The Quotable Book Lover
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