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“It feels to me as thought I've become the character in it, and the character's life ends when the books does. I suppose there are times I'm glad too. Then the ending is like coming out of a bad dream, and I feel all light and free, reborn. I sometimes wonder whether writers really know what they're doing to us readers. [...] I don't read much anymore [...] maybe for that reason. Because I didn't want books to have me in their power. It's like poison. I imagined I'd become immune. But you never become immune. On the contrary.”
― Agnes
― Agnes
“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
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“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
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“Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.”
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“If you want to know the truth, I don't know what I think about it. I'm sorry I told so many people about it. About all I know is, I sort of miss everybody I told about.[...] It's funny. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
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