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I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism.

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Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you

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The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. ”― Haruki Murakami, Norweg...more

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Of course, reading novels was just another form of escape. As soon as he closed their pages he had to come back to the real world. But at some point T...more

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The real world—where I probably could never be happy, and never get anywhere.

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Don't blame me. That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution.

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There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.

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When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions tha...more

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I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in the world.

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That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and size...more

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I'm alone inside the world of the story, my favorite feeling in the world.

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A deaf composer's like a cook who's lost his sense of taste. A frog that's lost its webbed feet. A truck driver with his license revoked. That would t...more

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Slowly like a movie fade out, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in the world.

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No, we weren't lovers, but in a way we had opened ourselves to each other even more deeply than lovers do. The thought caused me a good deal of grief....more

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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.