"I try really hard to cultivate the pure love of reading, to make time for it, because it would be really sad to still be a writer without remembering why, on some visceral, emotional level."

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Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

Elif Batuman

#Reading Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Trying Quotes

“As far as domestic democracy, all here present know that democracy means government of the people by the people. While we agree that consultation and participation are essential to every democracy, this is seldom achieved in practice.”
“I like mythology - anything historical.”
“Kids and adults have sex for many, many reasons... Put out a question box.”
“First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.”

Source : Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov.
“There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere.”
“As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.”

Source : 'The Age of Illusion' (1963) ch. 12
“Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.”
“Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.”

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