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“I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.”

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Book:Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private
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“While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being lazy, aimless dreamers, people who need to grow up and come outside to where real life is, who think themselves superior in their separateness.”

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Book:How Reading Changed My Life
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“Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and staring at the tedious blue of the summer sky. I don't believe you can write poetry, or compose music, or become an actor without downtime, and plenty of it, a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.”

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Book:Loud and Clear
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