I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what … - Lynne Sharon Schwartz

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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't give what I crave: ecstasy, transcendence, a thrill of mysterious connection. For, more than anything else, readers are thrill-seekers, though I don't read thrillers, not the kind sold under that label, anyway. They don't thrill; only language thrills.

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Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches and leaps and jumps to the tune of words.

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I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?

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My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has a grayish cast. The bed, across the room, calls in its unmistakable lover's croon, Come to me, come, only I can make you truly happy, oh, how happy I'll make you, don't resist, remember how you moan with pleasure the instant we touch. . . . . Laura Acosta

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Getting away from being 'a good girl' is important because it's impossible to be a 'good girl' and a writer at the same time.

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Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.

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