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I get nervous watching teammates. I get nervous for them. Late in the game, pressure situation, I'm nervous for them.

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Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd.

Book, Elitist, Nerd, Poor, Scholar
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Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that malignant booksellers attach to the backs. These evil white scabs rip off with difficulty, leaving leprous wounds and traces of slime to which adhere the dust and fluff of ages, making me wish for a special gummy hell to which the inventor of these stickers would be condemned.

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The starting point is a question.

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In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.

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Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.

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reading is at the beginning of the social contract

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