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“What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we’ve read? What matters is how we feel, how we see, what we do after reading; whether the street and the clouds and the existence of others mean anything to us; whether reading makes us, physically, more alive.”
― Gabriel Zaid, So Many Books : Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance

“Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.”
― Dave Hickey, Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy

“Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.”
― Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

“The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.”
― Patricia Duncker, Hallucinating Foucault