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You're either reading a book or you're not.

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And did the distress I was feeling derive from some internal sickness of the soul, or was it imposed on me by the sickness of society? That someone be...more

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Plato laments the decline of the oral tradition and the atrophy of memory which writing induces, I at the other end of the Age of the Written Word am ...more

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[P]art of having a complicated mind was understanding its limits, understanding that it couldn't think of everything. Stupidity mistook itself for int...more

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What lived on-in me- was the discomfort of how completely I'd outgrown the novel I'd once been so happy to live in