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“I had to go back and reread the page a few times. As I read it, I kept drifting out of the book, out of the booth, and coasting on the green crest of the song, to the momentary idea that any point on Earth was mine for the visiting, that I'd lucked out living in the reality I was in. And I also got the feeling I was souring and damaging that luck by enjoying the contentment of pulling the shades on the sun, and shutting out my fellow employees and the world, and folding myself up in the construct of a brilliant novel like The Man in the High Castle, that all the reading I'd been doing up to this point hadn't enhanced my life, but rather had replaced and delayed it.”

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Zombie Spaceship Wasteland

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Patton Oswalt
Patton Oswalt

Patton Oswalt is an American comedian, screenwriter, and author known for his unique humor style and profound insights into everyday life. He has a rich experience in the comedy industry, performing in various comedy clubs and television shows. His filmography includes 'The Wedding Singer', 'Almost Famous', and the 'American Pie' series. more

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“So -- I confess I have been a rake at reading. I have read those things which I ought not to have read, and I have not read those things which I ought to have read, and there is no health in me -- if by health you mean an inclusive and coherent knowledge of any body of great literature. I can only protest, like all rakes in their shameful senescence, that I have had a good time.”