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L'estasi del lettore. Quando hai la sensazione che un libro fosse scritto proprio per te e quel libro farà sempre parte della tua vita. Come scriveva VN: "Siamo liberi cittadini dei nostri sogni." Afar Nafisi is my new hero.

"People with no sense of humor will never forgive you for being funny."
Enjoying this one so far.

"Suddenly, the potential for fiction as a vital force in the world felt unlimited. It could be everything: the most effective mode of mind-to-mind contact ever devised, a powerful form of entertainment, in the highest sense of the word."

"The short story is not a documentary or a rigorous accounting of the passage of time or a fair-minded attempt to show life as it is really lived: it's a radically-shaped, even somewhat cartoonish (when held up against the tedious real world) little machine that thrills us with the extremity of its decisiveness."