“People like me have to make two lists: what they need and what they want. You keep the first list short, if you’re smart, and you burn the second one.”
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“philosophers have warned us: if we forget the past, we are doomed to repeat it.”
“And then you find that you have no years left. You have days. That is the prize: to realize, at the end, that every minute was worth fighting for with every ounce of blood and fire.”
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“I don’t think it really matters whether you know a lot about books or not. That said, I don’t know that much myself. But I think what matters far more with a book is how it affects you.”
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“It’s hard to be knocked down when you’re on all fours.”
“The only way forward is to forget.”
“At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn’t even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them, sounding them out or comprehending them. It was a completely private affair and completely free and, therefore, completely subversive.”
