“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”- This is now on my list of fears!
“Sometimes words are not enough.”
“The book was long, and difficult to read, and Klaus became more
and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his eyes would close.
He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found
himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself
reading the same sentence over and over.” ( He does this and it is great. Darkness is mentioned? Two pages pure black. A reflection discussed? He mimics the passage upside down below it!)
“One of the world's most tiresome questions is what object one would
bring to a desert island,because people always answer "a deck of cards"
or "Anna Karenina" when the obvious answer is "a well equipped boat and a
crew to sail me off the island and back home where I can play all the
card games and read all the Russian novels I want.”
“There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good
sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants
to read something different.”
“There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for
each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can
spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like a life,
particularly a good one, which is well to worth staying up all night to
finish.”
" But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book
about the law. Books about the law are notorious for being very long,
very dull, and very difficult to read. This is one reason many lawyers
make heaps of money. The money is an incentive - the word "incentive"
here means "an offered reward to persuade you to do something you don't
want to do - to read long, dull, and difficult books.”
“Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to
read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something that
will make you weep uncontrollably, pound your fists against the floor,
and leave tearstains all over your pillowcase, sheets, and boomerang
collection.”
THIS MAN IS A GENIUS!
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