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"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."
"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."
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"Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it."
"If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul."
"We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it."
"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."
"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
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