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If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one...more

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Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If ...more

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Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

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It turned out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are the plane, the train, and the road. ...more

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Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.

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In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I mi...more

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How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and Prejudice and find ourselves transce...more

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Perhaps it is true that at base we readers are dissatisfied people, yearning to be elsewhere, to live vicariously through words in a way we cannot liv...more

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Crusoe and Friday. Ishmael and Ahab. Daisy and Gatsby. Pip and Estella. Me. Me. Me. I am not alone. I am surrounded by words that tell me who I am, wh...more

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Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

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those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers...

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In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I mi...more

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In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

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Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the...more

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The biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this. I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that ...more