"If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs."

-- Anne Fadiman

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“In memory Venice is always magic.”
“My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her.”
“Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.”
“They call me Superman, leap tall hoes in a single bound.”
“Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.”
“Like all our memories, we like to take it out once in a while and lay it flat on the kitchen table, the way my wife does with her sewing patterns, where we line up the shape of our lives against that which we thought it would be by now.”

Source : Claire Vaye Watkins (2012). “Battleborn”, p.26, Granta Books
“It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for a person to let money-getting harden his heart into contempt, or into impatience, of the little attentions, the merriments and the caresses of domestic life.”
“I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year”

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