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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.

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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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