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Libraries are sexual dream factories. The languor brings it on.
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It seems to me that going backward sometimes means going forward.
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Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.
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Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.
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Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.
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Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.
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Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.
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I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.
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Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.
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There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.
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Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.
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Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader's skull and heart.
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Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit — unconscious and conscious.
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Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder.
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There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.
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Something seemed to have gone terribly wrong with me, but what exactly? I decided to go in search of the shaking woman.
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Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.
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Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.
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The fictive is an enormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.
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A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.
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We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.
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True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.
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The shaking woman felt like me and not like me at the same time. From the chin up, I was my familiar self. From the neck down, I was a shuddering stranger.
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I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.
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The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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February 19, 1955
(age 69)
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