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Anne Fadiman - At Large and At Small (2007)

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When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose

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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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Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.

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What hashish was to Baudelaire, opium to Coleridge, cocaine to Robert Louis Stevenson, nitrous oxide to Robert Southey, mescaline to Aldous Huxley, and Benzedrine to Jack Kerouac, caffeine was to Balzac.

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It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.

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Anne Fadiman

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Born: August 7, 1953 (age 71)
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