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Anne Fadiman quotes: Every illness is not a set of pathologies but a personal story

Every illness is not a set of pathologies but a personal story

Anne Fadiman quotes: You're a romantic. What's romantic about a guy wanting to go somewhere and actually getting there?

You're a romantic. What's romantic about a guy wanting to go somewhere and actually getting there?

Anne Fadiman quotes: Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.

Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.

Anne Fadiman quotes: George, if you ever break the spine of one of my books, I want you to know that you might as well be breaking my own spine.

George, if you ever break the spine of one of my books, I want you to know that you might as well be breaking my own spine.

Anne Fadiman quotes: If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wanderingnaked and alone

If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering
naked and alone

Anne Fadiman quotes: A dark imagination is, perhaps, more appealing before you know anything about darkness.

A dark imagination is, perhaps, more appealing before you know anything about darkness.

Anne Fadiman quotes: You can miss a lot by sticking to the point.

You can miss a lot by sticking to the point.

Anne Fadiman quotes: The action most worth watching is not at the center of things, but where edges meet.

The action most worth watching is not at the center of things, but where edges meet.

Anne Fadiman quotes: E-mail is a modern Penny Post: the world is a single city with a single postal rate.

E-mail is a modern Penny Post: the world is a single city with a single postal rate.

Anne Fadiman quotes: But like balloons, they were excessively buoyant, and if you weren't careful, they floated away.

But like balloons, they were excessively buoyant, and if you weren't careful, they floated away.

Anne Fadiman quotes: One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [ ... ] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [ ... ] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

Anne Fadiman quotes: Marina wouldn't want to be remembered because she dead. She would want to be remembered because she's good.

Marina wouldn't want to be remembered because she dead. She would want to be remembered because she's good.

Anne Fadiman quotes: If my father were still writing essays, every full-grown 'girl' would probably be transformed into a'woman'.

If my father were still writing essays, every full-grown 'girl' would probably be transformed into a'woman'.

Anne Fadiman quotes: I have never been able to resist a book about books.

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

Anne Fadiman quotes: If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.

Anne Fadiman quotes: Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

Anne Fadiman quotes: Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

Anne Fadiman quotes: In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

Anne Fadiman quotes: I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.

I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.

Anne Fadiman quotes: I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

Anne Fadiman quotes: It is well known that involuntary migrants, no matter what pot they are thrown into, tend not to melt.

It is well known that involuntary migrants, no matter what pot they are thrown into, tend not to melt.

Anne Fadiman quotes: For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

Anne Fadiman quotes: Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.

Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.

Anne Fadiman quotes: It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.

It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.

Anne Fadiman quotes: Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.

Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.