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“The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.”
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“I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.”
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“Grace has a grand laughter in it.”
― Gilead
― Gilead
“It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for.”
― Gilead
― Gilead
Q&A with Livia Blackburne on Neuroscience of Reading and Writing
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What is it that transforms a page of words into something that moves us and leaves us changed? From February 13, 2011 to March 15, 2011, Livia Blackbu ...more
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