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The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

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“... I really have no circle of acquaintances outside work. None nonfictional or unrelated to me, anyway. I'm busy. There are a lot of books to read.”

Reading Books Friends

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“They don’t really want to learn here. Or I think they do, but they have no time to learn what’s being taught. They’re busy trying to learn themselves. That’s probably why they didn’t talk to me. They have their own complicated landscapes, and I don’t fit.”

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“It scares the living daylights out of everybody. Present company excepted, I’m sure.” “I don’t really do living or daylight,” Dorian said. “I’m a Gothic masterpiece.”

Fear Dorian Gray Living Daylights

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“Sometimes I think my brain opened as far as it could go when I was about seventeen, and its doors have been just stuck there ever since. And now they're ossifying and collecting cobwebs, and things are spilling in, swirling around for a bit, and then flying out again. And someday they'll start to swing slowly shut, and I'll be left in the dark with nothing but a few rustling fragments of thoughts that get thinner and weaker every time I use them. Like tea leaves. And sometimes I think I can do anything.”

Human Nature Human Condition Readers Bookworms

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“We’ve read our own myths into the world.”

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“Something has to be heard to be ignored. He heard me this time, and he ignored me.”

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“But I need to reassure the others first. They’ll be all out of sorts.” “Reassure them of what?” “Oh, you know,” she said. “Everything’s perfectly all right, that sort of thing.” “And is it?” Charley asked. “Of course not,” she snorted. “If it were, they wouldn’t need me to tell them.”

Everything Is All Right

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“It was quiet as I settled in to read alongside Sherlock Holmes and David Copperfield. But for the crackle of the fire and the ever-present whistle of the wind outside, it was as quiet as it had been in the city, after everything changed. And for a moment, the space between heartbeats, I felt I could glimpse the world Charley saw. A world of light and shadow, of fact, truth and story, each blurring into one another as sleep and wakefulness blur in the early morning. The moments of our lives unfolding as pages in a book. And everything connected, everyone joined, by an ever-shifting web of language, by words that caught us as prisms caught light and reflected back at ourselves.”

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“Where the light was strongest, there were no buildings.”

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