"Imagine! It is the real power of a book--not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the pages in, makes it part of himself. That is the definition of literature."

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Source : Matthew Pearl (2015). “The Last Bookaneer: A Novel”, p.12, Penguin

Matthew Pearl

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“I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.”
“Instead, I quietly excused myself and went to the bar, to commune with spirits I know how to relate to.”

Source : Mary Roach (2010). “Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife”, p.159, Canongate Books
“Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.”

Source : Hotel du Lac (1984) ch. 7
“He existed a step or two to one side of the common world, largely out of sight, a shadow, all but invisible. Whatever he owned, either he could hoist it on his back and lug it along or he could walk away from it. Anonymity was the thing he loved most about the city, being a part of it and apart from it at the same time.”

Source : James Sallis (2012). “Drive: The book that inspired the major film starring Ryan Gosling”, p.20, Oldcastle Books
“Theoretically, we Mennonites do not even know what we look like, since a focus on our personal appearance is vainglorious. Our antipathy to vainglory explains the decision of many of us to wear those frumpy skirts and the little doilies on our heads, a decision we must have arrived at only by collectively determining not to notice what we had put on that morning.”
“I don't think I compete with myself by trying to make a better book. I don't know that that's possible. I mean, I've already done my best books, so I'd like to just make something I also like now.”
“It bewilders me when people speak to you rudely or are mean, because I'd never be that way.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
“Mac." He said my name and laughed. "What a name for something like you. Mac.”

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