"...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again."

-- Anne Fadiman

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“And the writing is still : to you, with you, about you, because of you and for you.”
“Industry is the enemy of melancholy”
“I believe that people start to get into trouble when they start to believe their own hype.”
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries. Besides the fanatical frenzy which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.”
“The only sex education my mother ever gave me was the injunction: 'Never let a boy touch you down there.' I had no idea what she meant. She seemed to be referring to my knees.”
“When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn is because he or she has gone past a word that was not understood.”
“Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.”

Source : "Finding Your J Spot: Joy in Midlife and Beyond". Book by Peter Brill and David Debin, 2006.
“If you want freedom you have to come to terms with being okay in the now doing nothing.”

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