"If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents."

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Source : Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.100, Macmillan

Sven Birkerts

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Years Quotes

“I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.”
“Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary even of resentment and conceit, just weary to death, and still not sufficiently Americanized or Londonized to hide the weariness under a mechanical jig-jig-jig!”
“...how do you run and play when you feel like there are bricks of the heaviest sadness weighing down every part of your body? How do you laugh and talk when there are no laughs left inside of you?”
“Taking the photograph is the easiest part for me”
“I think that the solution of the question of numerical superiority of Russian conventional forces has to be solved.”

Source : "War and Peace in the Nuclear Age". "Zero Hour", openvault.wgbh.org. 1987.
“Google is making a huge investment in developing the Ajax approach.”
“If I knew me as somebody else, I would hate me just as much. Why have a double standard?”

Source : David Wong (2009). “John Dies at the End”, p.359, Macmillan
“I think Stella Tennant is amazing. And then I really loved all those 60s society models, like Edie Sedgwick.”

Source : "The 21st Century Girl: Edie Campbell". Interview with J.W. Anderson, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 24, 2013.

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