- Nov 07, 2020
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- He Or She
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- Nov 07, 2020
A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is in limbo and doesn't come to life until the reader picks it up and the reader flips the pages.
- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory tower developed. Now there's still this idea that the reader doesn't take part in the social game and in politics, the res publica, but for other reasons: he doesn't do it because he's not making any money.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting experience for a child. And what I would do was quickly unpack my books and go back to a book I knew well and make sure the same text and the same illustrations were there.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place doesn't, to my mind, justify any thankfulness towards that place. It could have been anywhere.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020