"Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves."

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Source : Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.15, Macmillan

Anne Fadiman

#Book Quotes #Stories Quotes #Refrigerators Quotes

“No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.”
“I am the odd man out in the family.”
“I think the retirement crisis globally is a major problem. I think it's especially prevalant in countries such as Japan, where immigration is an issue. I think the US is more shielded from it than most countries in the world. It has a higher birth rate than Japan, immigration is tolerated here unlike probably it is in Japan. I don't think it's as big an issue in the US as it is elsewhere in the world.”
“Retire to what? I'm a golfer and a fisherman. I've got no place to retire to.”
“When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, because I think it is a change of pace. I mean, we know how wonderful she is in romantic comedy.”
“The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.”
“We called the new [fourth] quark the "charmed quark" because we were pleased, and fascinated by the symmetry it brought to the subnuclear world. "Charm" also means a "a magical device to avert evil," and in 1970 it was realized that the old three quark theory ran into very serious problems. ... As if by magic the existence of the charmed quark would [solve those problems].”
“My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldnâ€™t always discuss for reasons of political expediency,”

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