6 quotes found
“But now books and men had gone their separate ways. Who has the patience for a book? Only a book.”
“Fear finds its prey in adolescents for the exact same reason fearlessness does. Every cut, scrape, broken arm or cancer is a cut, scrape, broken arm or cancer that has yet to arrive, that is on the...”
“Speculation was now news. News had been confused with fact. Fact had been replaced by expert opinion. People had been replaced by their biographies. Ability had been replaced by disability. Thinkin...”
“In literature, the reader standing at the threshold of the end of a book harbors no illusion that the end has not comehe or she can see where it finishes, the abyss the other side of the last chunk...”
“We had traveled far and long to get here but were still the same still-born, unreconstructed people who had once met on this landscape that began somewhere not too far south of the south and ended ...”
“Globalization has shipped products at a faster rate than anything else; its moved English into schools all over the world so that now there is Dutch English and Filipino English and Japanese Englis...”