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“They reciprocated the great and saving lie--that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things--willfully playing the parts they wrote for themselves, willfully creating and believing fictions necessary for life.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“With writing, we have second chances.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies