"We feel an affinity with a certain thinker because we agree with him; or because he shows us what we were already thinking; or because he shows us in a more articulate form what we were already thinking; or because he shows us what we were on the point of thinking; or what we would sooner or later have thought; or what we would have thought much later if we hadnâ€™t read it now; or what we would have been likely to think but never would have thought if we hadnâ€™t read it now; or what we would have liked to think but never would have thought if we hadnâ€™t read it now."

Source : Lydia Davis (2014). “Almost No Memory: Stories”, p.192, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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