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If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

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I wanted to ask my father about his regrets. I wanted to ask him what was the worst thing he'd ever done. His greatest sin. I wanted to ask him if the...more

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My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same ...more

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As a child, I read because books–violent and not, blasphemous and not, terrifying and not–were the most loving and trustworthy things in my life. I re...more

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Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fa...more

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Junior based all of his decisions on his dreams and visions, which created a lot of problems.

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Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It's one of the simplest sent...more

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You read a book for the story, for each of its words," Gordy said, "and you draw your cartoons for the story, for each of the words and images. And, y...more

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That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror and just like the disappe...more

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How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each...more