Quotes from book

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“Every hundred feet the world changes”

“Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.”

“They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him….”

“For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths…”

“For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common ground, a place where sound was alien.”

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”

“So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.”

“Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.”

“We play at believing ourselves imortal. We delude oursleves in the appraisal of our own works and in our perpetual misappraisal of the works of others. See you at the Nobel, writers say, as one might say: see you in hell.”

“Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.”

“The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.”

“The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.”