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It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn’t wait to leave.
— Anatole Broyard
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn’t wait to leave.
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall.
