“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation ...”
― Just Kids
― Just Kids
“I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.”
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“The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
“She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as if awaking from sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
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