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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."
"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
"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."
"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."
"You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else."
"Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect."
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"TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape."
"Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views."
"Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out."
"In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked."
"You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same."
"Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young."
"Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours."
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