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"I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed."
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
"In a book, even the real bastards can't hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a book. When you get to a sad part, no one's there to see you cry. Or wonder why you don't cry when you should."
"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."
"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."
"We encounter great souls by reading great books."
"There is no other enjoyment like reading."
"Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest."
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"I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms."
"The one time I was an actor, it happened to be in a globally dominant juggernaut. That was lucky."
"One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes."
"I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old."
"The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea."
"While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
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