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One hears about life all the time from different people with very different narrative gifts.

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Speaking about time’s relentless passage, Powell’s narrator compares certain stages of experience to the game of Russian Billiards as once he used to ...more

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Books do furnish a room.

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Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them.

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I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are uncon...more