I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when … - Edmund White

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Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her.

Edmund White

I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit

Book, Fit, Landscape, Literary, Perfect, Thinking

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The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.

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Marie Calloway has a very specific literary personality that the reader is intrigued by: she's masochistic, loves to experiment, is quickly bored and intermittently self-hating, very hip, rebellious. Figuring her out is a gripping adventure.

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I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique

Experimental, Sincerity, Technique, Think, Thinking

The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.

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Paris. . . is a world meant for the walker alone, for only the pace of strolling can take in all the rich (if muted) detail.

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. . . the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the perils of "other" revolutions (the American revolution being considered unique and somehow unrepeatable anywhere else in the world) have remained constant, have dictated, have obscured, the realities of empire, while apologists for overseas American interests have insisted on American innocence, doing good, fighting for freedom.

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Paulo Coelho

For many years I was trying to find answers only through books but then I realized that basically, life is about experience and the thing that you have to do is experience life instead of only reading about it. Reading is very important, but it's not enough. After reading, you have to take some decisions in your hands and move forward and be the human being that you are, and then going and meeting people and work.

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J. K. Rowling

Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her.

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Sherrilyn Kenyon

So, does this make you visibly challenged? (Nick) No, but if you don’t lay off me, I’m going to make you breathing impaired. (Acheron)

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Richard Russo

To his surprise, she leaned over and kissed him on the forehead, a kiss so full of affection that it dispelled the awkwardness, even as it caused Miles' heart to plummet, because all kisses are calibrated, and this one revealed the great chasm between affection and love.

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