November 2011
83 posts
“And so, when I began to read the proffered pages, I at one moment lost the train of thought in the text and drowned it in my own feelings. In these seconds of absence and self-oblivion, centuries passed with every read but uncomprehended and unabsorbed line, and when, after a few moments, I came to and re-established contact with the text, I knew that the reader who returns from the open seas of his feelings is no longer the same reader who embarked on that sea only a short while ago.”
—Milorad Pavić, Dictionary of the Khazars
“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
—― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
—Mark Twain (via pavorst)
