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I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism.

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Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you

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The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. ”― Haruki Murakami, Norweg...more

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Of course, reading novels was just another form of escape. As soon as he closed their pages he had to come back to the real world. But at some point T...more

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I all of a sudden got to feeling like talking to people. Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I’m talking to people...more

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I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in the world.

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I'm alone inside the world of the story, my favorite feeling in the world.

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A deaf composer's like a cook who's lost his sense of taste. A frog that's lost its webbed feet. A truck driver with his license revoked. That would t...more

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He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years. "That's...more

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With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

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I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky

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I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.