"I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects."

-- John Banville

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“Why is it that most things you might willingly do under other circumstances become distasteful when you have no choice?”
“We are all, by nature, clearly oriented toward the basic human values of love and compassion. We all prefer the love of others to their hatred. We all prefer othersâ€™ generosity to meanness. And who is there among us who does not prefer tolerance, respect and forgiveness of our failings to bigotry, disrespect, and resentment?”
“We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.”
“In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.”
“I have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurse's for aspirin and waddle along the halls with a pad like a flattened rabbit tail wadded between my legs, sopping with liver-colored blood.”
“What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.”
“In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves.”
“I've been working on the margins and I was aware of this choice from the start. I buy most of what's written and produced in the Arab world and I don't much like it.”

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