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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. - Jessamyn West

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. – Jessamyn West

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Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. – Jessamyn West

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Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West. – E.M. Forster

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Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind. – Charles Dudley Warner

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Psychopathia librorum…. I surround myself with the printed word. – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)

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He retired to his bibliomaniacal bed… – Thomas Frognall Dibdin, “The Drawing Room,”Bibliomania; or, Book Madness: A Bibl

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Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. – Isaac Disraeli

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The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings. – William Hazlitt

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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. – Otto von Bismarck

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Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches. – Otto von Bismarck

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