Quotes by Anne Fadiman

Anne Fadiman

…the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again.

Book

Shelves

Symphony

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

Admire

Englishmen

Heroic

Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.

Doubt

Drug

Influence

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

Literature

People

Way

I am very grateful to the electronic world for making my life easier, but there is something about holding a book – the smell and the world of association. Even when e-books are perfected, as they surely will be, it will be like being in bed with a very well-made robot rather than a warm, soft, human being whom you love.

Book

Grateful

Smell

I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one’s life wearing a typo.

Fate

Imagine

Typos

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

Able

Book

I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.

Believe

Book

Scotch

I’d rather have a book, but in a pinch I’ll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

Book

Settling

Water

If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering–naked and alone

Eternity

Naked

Soul

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Belief

Believe

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Book

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Cities

Cutting

Dark

Doubt

Drug

Edges

Englishmen

Eternity

Fate

Grateful

Heroic

Imagine

Influence

Library

Literature

Long

Matter

Mean

Missing

Naked

Nineteen

Old Things

People

Psychology

Purple

Reading

Reality

Responsibility

Scotch

Serious

Settling

Shelves

Shoreline

Sleep

Smell

Soul

Symphony

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Views

Voice

Waiting

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Quotes by Anne Fadiman

Anne Fadiman

…the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again.

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one’s life wearing a typo.

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.

I’d rather have a book, but in a pinch I’ll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering–naked and alone

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