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Anne Fadiman – amerykańska pisarka , redaktorka i nauczycielka.

✵ 7. Sierpień 1953
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Anne Fadiman: 11 cytatów0 Polubień

Anne Fadiman: Cytaty po angielsku

“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.”

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“I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.”

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Źródło: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

“Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.”

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Źródło: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

“One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form.”

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

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Źródło: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

“To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown, you've only pressed Pause.”

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Źródło: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

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

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Źródło: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

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

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Źródło: At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays

“When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer indifferent housekeeping, sleeping cats, and sufficient organizational chaos…”

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Źródło: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

“My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were on their shelves.”

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Źródło: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

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